Word Finder - confidential

definition

Kept, or meant to be kept, secret within a certain circle of persons; not intended to be known publicly

example

The newspaper claims a leaked confidential report by the government admits to problems with corrupt MPs.

synonyms

• classified
• dern
• off the record
• private
• privileged
• secret

definition

Inclined to share confidences; (of things) making people inclined to share confidences; involving the sharing of confidences.

example

Sitting in front of the fire, they became quite confidential, and began to gossip.

definition

Having someone's confidence or trust; having a position requiring trust; worthy of being trusted with confidences.

example

a confidential agent; a confidential servant; a confidential whisper

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It keeps a register of British firms who may desire to receive confidential information relative to their respective trades and supplies that information free of charge.

A good deal of special investigation relating to naval and especially submarine warfare was carried on during 1914-8, but the results of this confidential work were not published.

As a result of the hostility between Kutuzov and Bennigsen, his Chief of Staff, the presence of confidential representatives of the Emperor, and these transfers, a more than usually complicated play of parties was going on among the staff of the army.

Being sworn, he detailed a confidential conversation he had had with the prisoner in the Tower.

He was occupied in trying to unite firmly together the whole evangelical movement; he laboured to give his countrymen a good system of schools; he was on the watch to defeat any attempt of the Roman Curia to regain its hold over Germany; and he was the confidential adviser of a large number of the evangelical princes.

He preached at the coronation of Queen Anne and became her almoner and confidential adviser in matters of church and state.

Tiberius was hastily recalled and had a last confidential talk on affairs of state.

Locke resumed his old confidential relations, now at Thanet House in Aldersgate.

During the autumn of 1877 he went to London, Paris and Berlin on a confidential mission, establishing cordial personal relationships with Gladstone, Granville and other English statesmen, and with Bismarck.

The best-known of these ("Bagoses" in Josephus) became the confidential minister of Artaxerxes III.

Mums would understand, and Mums would keep it confidential.

Though he considered such precipitation impolitic, Robilant, finding that confidential information of Italian intentions had already been conveyed to the Austrian government, sought an interview with King Humbert, and on the 17th of October started for Vienna to settle the conditions of the visit.

In this, his work was the summarizing and inditing of the official letters and dispatches of the Holy See, combined with the functions of confidential secretary.

He soon gained his commander's confidence, which he reciprocated with the most devoted attachment, and was entrusted with the delicate duties of a confidential secretary, which he performed with much tact and skill.

The Government is refusing to make the document available because it is " commercially confidential " .

Phishing is when someone contacts you through a pop-up message or email message requesting that you provide confidential information to update your account.

On the eve of the crucial election of 1800, [Hamilton]wrote a bitter personal attack on the president (containing much confidential cabinet information), which was intended for private circulation, but which was secured and published by Aaron Burr, his legal and political rival.

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He said he has no intention of revealing the names of his confidential sources, citing journalistic precedent.

The series didn't appear in every issue of Confidential, but was fairly regular nonetheless.

We will treat all complaints seriously, and all information given to us will be treated as confidential.

A member of the old cavalier party, a confidential friend and correspondent of the despotic Lauderdale, he desired to strengthen the executive and the royal authority.

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Make sure that it is confidential and keep it to yourself.

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The national assembly (Orszaggyiiles) was still summoned occasionally, but at very irregular intervals, the real business of the state being transacted in the royal council, where able men of the middle class, principally Italians, held confidential positions.

Sarat Chandra Das's reports of his two journeys were published by the Indian government, but for political reasons were until 1890 kept strictly confidential.

After the repudiation of the British protectorate of the Ionian Islands, the order was placed on a new basis, and by letters patent of 1868 and 1877 it was extended and provided for such of " the natural born subjects of the Crown of the United Kingdom as may have held or shall hold high and confidential offices within her majesty's colonial possessions, and in reward for services rendered to the crown in relation to the foreign affairs of the Empire."

In 1667 Locke moved from Christ Church to Exeter House, Lord Ashley's London residence, to become his confidential secretary.

She had never accustomed herself to be very abject before him, and they had never been confidential allies.

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Otherwise, the bulk of the report was to be made public with the exempt information set out in a confidential annex.

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It can keep vandals from altering your Web page and prevent industrial competitors from reading your confidential documents.

Anything you tell your District Nurse will remain strictly confidential within your health care team.

Individual figures are kept completely confidential not even the BRC sees them.

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Counselors take careful notes of their meetings with young people and these are rightly kept entirely confidential.

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All employees have access to some information which employers would consider confidential.

All of the responses, other than those that were marked confidential, are listed here.

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Luckily, she had had nothing derogatory or confidential to say!

Details of individual census records, which contain similar sensitive information, have been kept totally confidential for the 100 years originally enacted.

There must be clear and agreed guidelines about the confidential nature of all records.

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In January 1994 Haase and Bennett were registered as confidential informants by Customs and Excise.

Peter Ricketts, Straw's policy director, offered the Foreign Secretary some advice in a confidential memo dated Friday, March 22.