public investment

noun GOVERNMENT, ECONOMICS, FINANCE

Definition

› [U] the money that a government spends on public services, such as education and health: The business community fears that the economy's slow growth is inadequate to meet the nation's private and public investment needs.

(Definition of public investment noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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