public goods

British  

plural noun

1. services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public

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public goods

The government offers support to farmers carrying out environmental work through schemes that pay for so-called public goods, from improving habitats to boosting biodiversity.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Tackling global public goods is essential for growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Waterways must be treated as essential public goods.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

Doctorow’s concept about online platforms has since been applied everywhere and anywhere you can find capitalism hollowing out public goods.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2024

And on account of the diphthong, grammarians do not derive it from liteh, which signifies prayers, but from public goods, which they call leita, so that leitourgeoh means, I attend to, I administer public goods.

From Apology of the Augsburg Confession by Philipp Melanchthon

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