public charity

1. 1.

   a charity that is deemed to receive the major part of its support from the public (rather than from a small group of individuals)

   Broadercharity

Questions about public charity

What does public charity mean?

public charity means "a charity that is deemed to receive the major part of its support from the public (rather than from a small group of individuals)".

Is public charity a common word?

public charity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.