the public purse
noun [S] mainly UKDefinition
› money from the government: People should provide for their own retirement and not expect to be supported by the public purse.Economics and the state of the economy
(Definition of the public purse noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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