NOUN
- structures (such as highways or schools or bridges or docks) constructed at government expense for public use
How To Use public works In A Sentence
- We need them as part the system, " said Senator Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat who serves on the foreign and environment and public works committees.
- The government is persisting with its ambitious public works programme.
- But his budget focused mainly on attracting investment to public-private partnerships to build new public works projects, on which he'll spend 137 billion ringgit ($44 billion). Malaysia's Growth Muddle
- The municipal government will launch an extensive public works program next year.
- Those who wish more tax money to go to public works or welfare are free to make the argument that these expenses outweight the good done by other federal programs and therefore should take priority. MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Responsible for the Lack of Public Interest in Space Exploration?
- The money is divided among departments such as Welfare, Water Affairs and Public Works, which are involved in job creation programmes and poverty relief.
- Last fall, MORE reared its head when Baltimore's Department of Public Works threatened to step up enforcement of rules that keep mountain bikes off so-called singletrack dirt trails around Loch Raven and Pretty Boy reservoirs. Baltimore City Paper
- Four Public Workshops lead by Dr de Freitas came from the Glossop Lecture on the following topics: The London Basin, Failure in mature landslides, Scale and its use in geotechnics and, The geotechnical significance of Boundary Layers of particles. Edie.net - Latest News
- Public works inspectors may specialize in highways, structural steel, reinforced concrete, or ditches.
- They perform great public works by the united efforts of the whole community -- such as damming up streams and constructing mounds for their habitations. The Illustrated London Reading Book