0 a service provided by the government, such as hospitals, schools, or the police: --
[ before noun ] The star has recorded public-service announcements for local TV on subjects including HIV and teen pregnancy.
[ before noun ] Inner-city teaching has become a popular public-service job for new graduates.
The prime minister wants to stop Italy's huge public debt growing, and to make its public services more efficient.
1 the work that elected officials and government employees do for the benefit of the public --
2 a service provided by the government, such as health care, education, or the police: --
3 the government and the work that its departments do: --
4 something necessary that is done or provided for the public without trying to make a profit: --
This lack of specificity resulted in an ambiguity over which level of government - state or municipal - was responsible for delivering a particular public service.
He's not keen on a repetition of this, though he really does believe in public service and in ventilating issues.
From an administrative perspective, the planning capacity and the strong links between a given regional population and the chosen level of public service are weakened.
The rest (17.9 per cent) are supervised by non-civil affairs agencies, mainly enterprises, public service units and social organisations.
The advocates of lighthouse reform were thus not merely attacking corruption, they were attacking the very existence of private property in a public service.
In short, the principal-agency problem is much more severe wherever fragmentation in the elective branches and in public service exists.
This lack of incentive is only reinforced when the state sees that isolated municipalities have already fashioned viable solutions to their public service needs.
Once clerical and routine in its work, the federal public service saw increasing demand for specialists.