Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public.
Wiktionary
- n. Technical projects, often construction or engineering, carried out by the government on behalf of the community.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. all fixed works built by civil engineers for public use, as railways, docks, canals, etc.; but strictly, military and civil engineering works constructed at the public cost.
WordNet 3.0
- n. structures (such as highways or schools or bridges or docks) constructed at government expense for public use
Examples
“A bill authorizing the Board of public works to appoint commissioners to estimate and report upon losses sustained by John Conaway in the construction of the Fairmont and Wheeling turnpike road, was taken up, on motion of Mr. PRITCHARD, read the second time, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time; and being forthwith engrossed, two-thirds concurring, was read the third time and passed.”
Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.
“An act authorizing the Board of public works to appoint commissioners to estimate and report upon losses sustained by John Conoway in the construction of the Fairmont and Wheeling turnpike road, No. 137.”
Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.
“A bill authorizing the Board of public works to appoint commissioners to estimate and report losses sustained by Wm.W. King in the construction of the 14th section of the Ohio river and Maryland turnpike road.”
Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.
“The potato crop of 1846 was even worse than that of 1845, and Peel's system of public works had proved an expensive failure, more pauperising than almsgiving.”
“A bill authorizing the Board of public works to appoint commissioners to estimate and report upon losses sustained by John Conaway in the construction of the Fairmont and Wheeling turnpike road.”
Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.
“Shiploads of Indian corn had been landed, and public works for the help of the destitute established up and down the country.”
“He is then sent to one of the central public works prisons,”
“No, no, nothing so exciting — only a boring public works project, building a dam across one of the vales of the Scalps, to create a reservoir deep enough to supply the Emerald City and decrease its dependence on foreign water.”
“Resolved, that the Board of public works furnish to this house any information which in their judgment they may deem pertinent to the question involved in the petition of Edward McMahan and other contractors on the Covington and Ohio rail road.”
Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.
“An act authorizing commissioners appointed by the Board of public works to estimate and report damages of John Conaway on the Fairmont and Wheeling turnpike.”
Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.
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