Definition of "publicans" [publicans]

• Plural form of publican. (noun)

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• "Mr. Peters tells me that as a boy of eleven he earned twenty dollars a week selling mint to saloon keepers, as they call publicans over there."
• "Bush was a white president and the publicans are a white party."
• "The chiefs as well as their underlings are called publicans in our New Testament, although the name strictly applies only to the chiefs."