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81pub crawl — ► NOUN Brit. informal ▪ a tour taking in several pubs, with one or more drinks at each …
82pub|keep|er — «PUHB KEE puhr», noun. Especially British. a person who owns or keeps a public house …
83pub|lic-ac|cess — «PUHB lihk AK sehs», adjective. available for public use, especially of cable television: »By law, only programs that are obscene or call for the commission of crimes can be banned from public access cable (New Yorker) …
84pub|lic-ad|dress system — «PUHB lihk uh DREHS», an apparatus consisting of one or more microphones, amplifiers, and loudspeakers, by which speeches, announcements, music, or a motion picture sound track may be made audible to a large audience, as on a public street or in… …
85pub|lic-in|ter|est — «PUHB lihk IHN tuhr ihst, trihst», adjective. of or having to do with class action suits and other legal means of protecting the interests of the public …
86pub|lic-serv|ice corporation — «PUHB lihk SUR vihs», a corporation formed or chartered to give service to the general public, as by furnishing gas or electricity, or bus or railroad transportation …
87pub|li|can — «PUHB luh kuhn», noun. 1. British. the keeper of a public house. 2. a) a tax collector of ancient Rome. b) any collector of tolls or tribute. ╂[< Latin pūblicānus < pūblicum public revenue, (originally) neuter of pūblicus public] …
88pub|li|cise — «PUHB luh syz», transitive verb, cised, cis|ing. Especially British. publicize …
89pub|li|cist — «PUHB luh sihst», noun. 1. a person skilled or trained in law or in public affairs. 2. a writer on law, politics, or public affairs. 3. a person who publicizes: »Dr. Tsuru is a leading publicist for the neutralist view of world affairs (Atlantic) …
90pub|lic|i|ty — «puhb LIHS uh tee», noun. 1. public notice: »the publicity that actors desire. 2. the measures used for getting, or the process of getting, public notice: »a campaign of publicity for a new automobile. SYNONYM(S): advertising, propaganda. 3. the… …
