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common good

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the part of the property of a Scottish burgh, in the form of land or funds, that is at the disposal of the community

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common good - the good of a community

commonweal

good - benefit; "for your own good"; "what's the good of worrying?"

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The sense of the value of "ruling and being ruled in turn" is derived from the experience that the ruler may use his power to subordinate the lives of the citizens of the state not to the common good but to his own private purposes.

A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context

Not to do the honours of her house with common good breeding

Northanger Abbey by Austen, Jane View in context

He had not his full share in the common good of men; he could not even pass muster with the insignificant, but must be singled out for pity, and excepted from what was a matter of course with others.

The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context

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