Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - public property

1. Public property is land and other assets that belong to the general public and not to a private owner. ...vandals who wrecked public property... ? private property N-UNCOUNT 2. If you describe a person or thing as public property, you mean that information about them is known and discussed by everyone. She complained that intimate aspects of her personal life had been made public property. N-UNCOUNT