Common-good Definition

noun

The general interest of the population as a whole.

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(economics) A good that is rivalrous and non-excludable.

A classic example of a common good are fish stocks in international waters; no one is excluded from fishing, but as people withdraw fish without limits being imposed, the stocks for later fishermen are potentially depleted. (Common good)
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Noun

Singular:
common-good
Plural:
common goods

Common-good Sentence Examples

  • She will only utilize it for common good.

  • Capitalism as an ideology is the belief that if everyone pursues self-interest, the outcome will be common good.

  • Never before, since the age of Margaret, had Denmark been so well governed, never before had she possessed so many political celebrities nobly emulous for the common good.

  • Royal burghs derive part of their income from ancient corporate property known as " the Common Good " and consisting mostly of land and houses.

  • Glasgow, for example, might found a chair in the University from the Common Good but not from the rates, and Edinburgh maintains from the same source the city observatory and defrays part of the cost of the time-gun.

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Words Ending With

DODOOD

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Words Starting With C and Ending With D

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