PUBLIC OFFICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does public office mean? 

• PUBLIC OFFICE (noun)
  The noun PUBLIC OFFICE has 1 sense:

1. a position concerning the people as a whole

  Familiarity information: PUBLIC OFFICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUBLIC OFFICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A position concerning the people as a whole

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("public office" is a kind of...):

berth; billet; office; place; position; post; situation; spot (a job in an organization)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "public office"):

bully pulpit (a public office of sufficiently high rank that it provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter)

 Context examples 

Having been placed in a file; recorded in a public office or in a court of law.

(Filed, NCI Thesaurus)

She had now seen all that were at home; there remained only two brothers between herself and Susan, one of whom was a clerk in a public office in London, and the other midshipman on board an Indiaman.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)