PUBLIC EXPOSURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does public exposure mean? 

• PUBLIC EXPOSURE (noun)
  The noun PUBLIC EXPOSURE has 1 sense:

1. the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate

  Familiarity information: PUBLIC EXPOSURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUBLIC EXPOSURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

airing; dissemination; public exposure; spreading

Hypernyms ("public exposure" is a kind of...):

transmission (communication by means of transmitted signals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "public exposure"):

circulation (the dissemination of copies of periodicals (as newspapers or magazines))

extension; propagation (the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions)

 Context examples 

Regard for my sister's credit and feelings prevented any public exposure; but I wrote to Mr. Wickham, who left the place immediately, and Mrs. Younge was of course removed from her charge.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She confined herself, or tried to confine herself, to the simple, indubitable family misery which must envelop all, if it were indeed a matter of certified guilt and public exposure.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Incidentally, I may tell you that we are doing the reverse of what you very justly blame, and that we are endeavouring to prevent anything like public exposure of private matters which must necessarily follow when once the case is fairly in the hands of the official police.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I told him that out of consideration for our family I should make no public exposure of him, but that he must never again in his life lay his hand upon a card, and that the money which he had won must be returned next morning with an explanation.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I could gather together that I was able to avert another public exposure.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)