public-private partnership

noun [C] (abbreviation PPP, P3) GOVERNMENT

Definition

› an arrangement where a government and a profit-making company invest in and work on an activity together: A public private partnership will fund the school regeneration programme.

(Definition of public-private partnership noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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