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semipublic
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sem·i·pub·lic  (sm-pblk, sm-)
adj.
1. Partially but not entirely open to the use of the public: prohibited smoking in public and semipublic places.
2. Partially but not totally owned by the public: a semipublic utility company.
3. Open to the knowledge and judgment of only a part of the public.

semi·public·ly adv.
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Adj.1.semipublic - having some of the features of public institution
public - not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole; "the public good"; "public libraries"; "public funds"; "public parks"; "a public scandal"; "public gardens"; "performers and members of royal families are public figures"


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At times, politics and crime semipublicly fuse into a single corrupt state, as in Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia.
 
 
 
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