Usually means: Shared information known by all.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word common knowledge:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. common knowledge: Merriam-Webster
  2. common knowledge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. common knowledge: Collins English Dictionary
  4. common knowledge: Vocabulary.com
  5. common knowledge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. common knowledge: Wiktionary
  7. common knowledge: Dictionary.com
  8. Common Knowledge (U.S. game show), Common Knowledge (game show), Common knowledge (logic), Common knowledge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. common knowledge: Rhymezone
  10. common knowledge: FreeDictionary.org
  11. common knowledge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. common knowledge: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. common knowledge: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. common knowledge: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. common knowledge: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Game Theory Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. common knowledge: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. common knowledge: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (common knowledge)

noun:  That which is known by most people, and thus cannot reasonably be contested.
noun:  (logic, game theory) A special kind of knowledge for a group of agents, such that when all the agents in a group G know p, they all know that they know p, they all know that they all know that they know p, and so on ad infinitum.

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