"member of the public" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1963 February, “Nobody runs this railway, mate”, in Modern Railways, page 73",
          "text": "The average member of the public has only a vague idea of the wide-ranging integration of effort needed to put on an intensive train service like the Southern's and run it with so high a degree of safety and reliability.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC",
          "text": "There was an easy charm to Stars in Their Eyes – inspired by the Dutch series Soundmixshow – in that a member of the public was lifted from their day job, given a makeover to sing their song on stage to a huge television audience, and then... normal life resumed.",
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        "A regular or normal citizen, as opposed to an official or agent acting in an official capacity."
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        {
          "word": "public member"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "public member"
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        {
          "ref": "1963 February, “Nobody runs this railway, mate”, in Modern Railways, page 73",
          "text": "The average member of the public has only a vague idea of the wide-ranging integration of effort needed to put on an intensive train service like the Southern's and run it with so high a degree of safety and reliability.",
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        },
        {
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          "text": "There was an easy charm to Stars in Their Eyes – inspired by the Dutch series Soundmixshow – in that a member of the public was lifted from their day job, given a makeover to sing their song on stage to a huge television audience, and then... normal life resumed.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A regular or normal citizen, as opposed to an official or agent acting in an official capacity."
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