public works

1. 1.

   structures (such as highways or schools or bridges or docks) constructed at government expense for public use

   Broaderstructure

   Part ofinfrastructure

   plural

Questions about public works

What does public works mean?

public works means "structures (such as highways or schools or bridges or docks) constructed at government expense for public use".

Is public works a common word?

public works 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.