plural of public enemy

A criminal widely regarded as dangerous or antisocial.

(idiomatic) A hypothetical average or generic member of the public; the common man (or person, by extension).

(statistics) The bias to meta-analysis resulting from statistical studies with low statistical power tending to remain unpublished and inaccessible to the analyst.

plural of publication bias

(uncountable) Information that has been filed with or recorded by a government agency.

Any authority which has a legal mandate to govern, administrate a part or aspect of public life, such as all branches of the executive power of a state, province, municipality etc.

plural of public authority

The whole of such public authorities, the governmental administration in the widest sense

public relations (in attributive use)