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bodynounPhysical frame.
public servicenoun(countable) A service such as health care, transport, or waste removal provided to the general public, often by the government.
public utilitynounAn organization that maintains the infrastructure for such a public service.
public sectornounAny government and all entities that are controlled or funded by it.
organnounThe larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
servicenounAn act of being of assistance to someone.
public authoritynounAny authority which has a legal mandate to govern, administrate a part or aspect of public life, such as all branches of the executive power of a state, province, municipality etc.
public officenoun(government) A position or occupation established by law or by the act of a government body, for the purpose of exercising the authority of the government in the service of the public.
state-owned enterprisenounA commercial business wholly or partly owned and operated by a central government.
non-governmental organizationnounA legally constituted non-commercial organization (created by natural or legal persons) with no direct control, participation or representation of a state or government, whose funding, however, may be largely public (which creates the possibility of indirect control).
ministrynounGovernment department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister (or equivalent rank, e.g. secretary of state), who holds it as portfolio, especially in a constitutional monarchy, but also as a polity
security servicenounA government organization established to protect its nation and its secrets from enemies.
health servicenouna public (or private) service providing health care to the general public.
establishmentnounThat which is established; as a form of government, a permanent organization, business or force, or the place where one is permanently fixed for residence.
social servicenounan organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society
governmentnounThe body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.
authoritiesnounThe bodies that enforce law and order or provide a public service.
quangonoun(UK, government, often derogatory) An organization that, although financed by a government, acts independently of it.
public/private partnershipnounAlternative form of public-private partnership. [(business, government) An arrangement by which one or more private firms agrees to fund, create, or operate a facility, service, or other element of public infrastructure (such as a school, hospital, or highway) which is usually the sole responsibility of government, in return for all or some of the revenue generated by that facility or service.]
public administrationnounthe implementation of public policy by governmental bodies; the administration of governmental functions; the administration of a state.

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