Short selling serves a really important public purpose.
卖空服务有一个非常重要的公共目的。
米德尔马契(五)
It was the idea of getting Bulstrode to apply some money to a public purpose — some money which he had thought of giving me.
这是让布尔斯特罗德将一些钱用于公共目的的想法——一些他曾想给我的钱。
飘(原版)
The state staggered under taxes which were paid in fury, for the taxpayers knew that much of the money voted for public purposes was finding its way into private pockets.
In the progress of despotism, the authority of the executive power gradually absorbs that of every other power in the state, and assumes to itself the management of every branch of revenue which is destined for any public purpose.
Public use is a legal requirement under the takings clause ("nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation") of the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, that owners of property seized by eminent domain for "public use" be paid "just compensation".