Vanessa Nicholson (granddaughter of Vanessa Bell, one of the pivotal figures of the unconventional, but influential Bloomsbury Group in the first half of the 20th century) has described it as a curious slippery adjective.
Definition of 'public housing'. public housing. uncountable noun. Public housing is apartments or houses that are rented to poor people, usually at a low cost, by the government. [mainly US] ...the construction of more public housing.
public assembly building meaning, public assembly building definition | English Cobuild dictionary. public. 1 n-sing-coll You can refer to people in general, or to all the people in a particular country or community, as the public.