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public domain

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public domain
n.
1. Land owned and controlled by the state or federal government.
2. The status of publications, products, and processes that are not protected under patent or copyright.
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Noun1.public domain - property rights that are held by the public at large
property right - the legal right of ownership


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In those branches of administration which the king did not himself direct, such for instance as the "fermes" (the public domains throughout the country on which a revenue was levied), the clerks were to their superior what the clerks of a business-house are to their employer; they learned a science which would one day advance them to prosperity.
Bureaucracy by de Balzac, Honore View in context
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