"public purse" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "public purses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "public purse (plural public purses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
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          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The public purse should be spent in the public interest.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 February 10, “Network News: Additional funds enable preparatory work for Ashington reopening”, in RAIL, number 924, page 8",
          "text": "This means that while initial funding will come from the public purse, landowners along the route will eventually pay back a share of the uplift in land values created by the new line.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Money collected or controlled by the government or taxpayers meant for public use."
      ],
      "id": "en-public_purse-en-noun-ej8xuESu",
      "links": [
        [
          "government",
          "government"
        ],
        [
          "taxpayer",
          "taxpayer"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "public funds"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "gōngkuǎn",
          "sense": "money controlled by the government",
          "word": "公款"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "money controlled by the government",
          "word": "國庫"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "guókù",
          "sense": "money controlled by the government",
          "word": "国库"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "money controlled by the government",
          "tags": [
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "yhteiset varat"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "public purse"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "public purse"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "public purses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "public purse (plural public purses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The public purse should be spent in the public interest.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 February 10, “Network News: Additional funds enable preparatory work for Ashington reopening”, in RAIL, number 924, page 8",
          "text": "This means that while initial funding will come from the public purse, landowners along the route will eventually pay back a share of the uplift in land values created by the new line.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Money collected or controlled by the government or taxpayers meant for public use."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "government",
          "government"
        ],
        [
          "taxpayer",
          "taxpayer"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "public purse"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "public funds"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "gōngkuǎn",
      "sense": "money controlled by the government",
      "word": "公款"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "money controlled by the government",
      "word": "國庫"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "guókù",
      "sense": "money controlled by the government",
      "word": "国库"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "money controlled by the government",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "yhteiset varat"
    }
  ],
  "word": "public purse"
}