What crypto means by it
A key that can generate every receiving address in a wallet without being able to spend from any of them. Useful for accounting, and a privacy problem if you share it, because it exposes your entire history at once.
What you already know this as
Read-only access to an account. Sensible for a bookkeeper, unwise to hand to a stranger.
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