common good

English

Noun

common good (countable and uncountable, plural common goods)

  1. The general interest of the population as a whole.
    Synonyms: public interest, public good
    • 2025 April 19, “JD Vance had ‘exchange of opinions’ with senior cardinal, Vatican says”, in The Guardian‎[1], sourced from Associated Press, →ISSN:
      Post-liberals share some longstanding Catholic conservative views, such as opposition to abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. They envision a counter-revolution in which they take over government bureaucracy and institutions such as universities from within, replacing entrenched “elites” with their own and acting upon their vision of the “common good”.
  2. (economics) A good that is rivalrous and nonexcludable.
    Synonyms: CPR, common-pool resource
    Coordinate terms: private good, club good, public good
  3. (Scotland) The corporate property of a burgh in Scotland.

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