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public goods

plural noun

  1. services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Well, they must be paid for—and it is reasonable to ask those who benefited most from public goods to pay most for those goods.

The concept of “public goods” is hardly the creation of liberal ideologues.

Is now the time to tax the very rich, make humane cuts, and invest in jobs and public goods like education, health, and roads?

In general all public goods found upon the seas outside of neutral jurisdiction are liable to capture.

I have already said that I expected the attachments laid on the public goods would be discharged.

At the office all day packing public goods, evening at Farr's writing out a letter of instruction to trustees.

Moreover I have to unpack the chest and wait on all of them with the public goods in my charge which keeps me busy all the time.

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