public property

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   property owned by a government

   Broaderproperty

Questions about public property

What does public property mean?

public property means "property owned by a government".

Is public property a common word?

public property 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.