public life

public life (uncountable)

1. The aspects of social life which occur in public, in the open, as opposed to more private social interaction within families, private clubs, etc.
   • 1927, John C. Ferguson, Chinese Painting‎, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, →OCLC, page 148:

     He was a native of Hua-t’ing, Kiangsu Province, and was director of education at K’un-shan, but retired on account of his dislike of public life.

2. Politics, as in the profession of being a politician or political activism in general.

• private life