public office

1. 1.

   a position concerning the people as a whole

   Broaderposition

   Narrowerbully pulpit

Questions about public office

What does public office mean?

public office means "a position concerning the people as a whole".

Is public office a common word?

public office 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.