Where does “公共事業” come from?

公共事業 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 事業 — project, work; an enterprise, a business.

公共事業 (Japanese): public work

Definitions

  1. public work

Ancestry of “公共事業”, step by step

公共事業 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 事業

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese事業project, work; an enterprise, a business

via Japanese 公共

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese公共public
Every word from Japanese 事業