Usually means: Benefit or welfare of community.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word public interest:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. public interest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. public interest: Infoplease Dictionary
  3. public-interest, public interest: Dictionary.com
  4. Public interest, The Public Interest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. public interest: TheFreeDictionary.com
  6. public-interest: Wordnik
  7. public interest: Wiktionary

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. public interest: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Public Interest: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. public interest: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (public interest)

▸ noun:  Common good.
▸ noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: public interest.

Similar:
res publica, national interest, multitudinism, commonwealthism, social responsibility, social justice, self, public, civicism, privatism, more...

Opposite:
private interest, self-interest, personal gain

Types:
environmentalism, charity, animal rights, voting, more...

Phrases:
inc software in the public interest, Public interest law, software in the public interest inc, Public interest litigation in India, Public Interest Registry, more...

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Similar:
res publica, national interest, multitudinism, commonwealthism, social responsibility, social justice, self, public, civicism, privatism, more...

Opposite:
private interest, self-interest, personal gain

Types:
environmentalism, charity, animal rights, voting, more...

Phrases:
inc software in the public interest, Public interest law, software in the public interest inc, Public interest litigation in India, Public Interest Registry, Public Interest Research Group, more...



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