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go public

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go public (with something)
1. to sell to the public shares of a privately owned company. (Securities markets.) The company decided not to go public because the economy was so bad at the time. Well go public at a later time.
2. to reveal something to the public. It's too early to go public with the story. Just let me know when we can go public with this press release.
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go public
to become a company in which anyone can invest It's the latest Internet company to go public and then immediately go bankrupt.
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go public (with something)

to make something known that was secret before If she goes public with her story, the school's reputation will suffer.
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Hot social networking site Facebook said Tuesday it has introduced a dual-class stock structure but has no plans to go public for the moment.
the Millcon Steel Industries Public Company Limited will be the third overseas firm to apply to go public on the Taiwan Stock Exchange by listing TDRs (Taiwan depository receipts) in Taiwan since the beginning of this year.
The pipeline, though improving, isn't bursting with new listings: At the peak of the boom, dozens of companies filed to go public each month.
 
 
 
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