public body

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public body (plural public bodies)

  1. A formally established organisation that is (at least in part) publicly funded to deliver a public or government service, though not as a ministerial department.
    • 2022 January 26, “Network News: RIA lauds East Coast programme as default model for GBR”, in RAIL, number 949, page 11:
      Network Rail's East Coast Digital Programme (ECDP) should lead the way for a national digital signalling programme and other major schemes under the new Great British Railways public body.

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