Word Finder - private

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A soldier of the lowest rank in the army.

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A doctor working in privately rather than publicly funded health care.

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(in the plural) The genitals.

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A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.

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Personal interest; particular business.

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Privacy; retirement.

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One not invested with a public office.

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(usually in the plural) A private lesson.

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If you want to learn ballet, consider taking privates.

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Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.

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Her address is private; you can't have it.

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Not accessible by the public.

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private property

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Not in governmental office or employment.

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He quit public life, living quietly as a private citizen.

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Not publicly known; not open; secret.

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The identity of the beneficiaries of the trust is private.

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Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded.

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Can we go somewhere more private?

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Not traded by the public.

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private corporation

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Secretive; reserved.

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He is a very private person.

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(of a room in a medical facility) Not shared with another patient.

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Accessible only to the class itself or instances of it, and not to other classes or even subclasses.

I'm trying to have a private conversation here.

I should have shown it to you in private - prepared you for it.

This is private property.

He wants Claire and probably has a private brothel in town.

The Dean's private quarters, a sitting room-office combination and bedroom, were located in the rear.

A private deal is a private deal.

Mortgages for all of us were quickly processed through a private bank owned by one of Merrill Cooms' entities.

He smiled faintly and nodded, striking off down the hall towards his private wing of the underground facility.

He motioned them both down the hall and into his private study.

The hundred-year-old Victorian building contained nine rentable rooms, each with a private bath.

It was a private deal.

He figured Rhyn and Andre needed a private moment and snorted as he heard Rhyn start off.

Thirty five miles later he found the address, a private home on the side street of a quiet neighborhood.

They said he was unavailable for comment, so I suppose he's a private person.

In desperation you seize the budget and dump everything out, and there in a corner is your man, serenely brooding on his own private thought, unconscious of the catastrophe which he has brought upon you.

She was no stranger to private personalities.

You make no deals with anyone aside from our private deals.

Within a few minutes, Alex arrived and whisked her off for a few private hours.

Still, the telephone conversation was obviously private.

She remained on the road until she reached the private stables.

If you want to keep your business private, I'll mind my own.

Someone like you is going to end up in our private society anyway.

She glanced at him, uneasy with the idea she knew something private about Xander.

It didn't sound too bad to be part of the strange, private club.

Horace Walpole, who gives an unfavourable picture of his private character, acknowledges that Stone possessed "abilities seldom to be matched"; and he had the distinction of being mentioned by David Hume as one of the only two men of mark who had perceived merit in that author's History of England on its first appearance.

Warham, who was chancellor of Oxford University from 1506 until his death, was munificent in his public, and moderate in his private life.

He encouraged the cities, and not content with issuing proclamations against private war, formed alliances with the princes in order to enforce his decrees.

The rest, particularly the manor of Edgware, which made the fortune of the college, was bought from private owners.

In 374 he was assassinated by a eunuch from motives of private revenge.

The building was burnt to the ground with all that it contained, including his private diary for forty years.

George Sand not only forgave the elopement and hushed up the scandal by a private marriage, but she settled the young couple in Paris and made over to them nearly one-half of her available property.

In 1703 Alexius was ordered to follow the army to the field as a private in a bombardier regiment.

Leo was by nature highly excitable and almost insanely passionate, though at the same time strictly honourable, unselfish, and in private intercourse even gentle.

The municipality owns its electric-lighting plant; the water-works are under private ownership. The first settlement in the neighbourhood was made in 1838.

At the age of eight he was taken in charge by an elder brother of his father, Howard Hastings, who held a post in the customs. After spending two years at a private, school at Newington Butts, he was moved to Westminster, where among his contemporaries occur the names of Lord Thurlow and Lord Shelburne, Sir Elijah Impey, and the poets Cowper and Churchill.

According to the custom of the time he had augmented his slender salary by private trade.

A few days later Nuncomar was thrown into prison on a charge of forgery preferred by a private prosecutor, tried before the supreme court sitting in bar, found guilty by a jury of Englishmen and sentenced to be hanged.

Hastings recorded in an official minute that he had found Francis's private and public conduct to be "void of truth and honour."

The pressing demands of the military chest had to be satisfied by loans, and in at least one case from the private purse of the governor-general.

Against his private character not even calumny has breathed a reproach.

No one who reads his private correspondence will admit that even his least defensible acts were dictated by dishonourable motives.

He acted for a short time as a private chaplain, but was appointed in 1679 to the small rectory of Ampton, near Bury St Edmunds, and in 1685 he was made lecturer of Gray's Inn.

After the war he retired into private life at Heidelberg.

In 1832 he was elected fellow of his college, and in the following year he was ordained, and became head master of a private school at Stockwell.

He now steadily pursued the design of the Restoration, but without holding any private correspondence with the king, and only on terms similar to those proposed in 1648 to Charles I.

The rivalry between the French and English factions in Scotland was complicated by private feuds of the Hamiltons and Douglases, the respective heads of which houses, Arran and Angus, were contending for the supreme power in the absence of Albany in France, where at the instance of Henry VIII.

For absurd and impracticable schemes in Italy and elsewhere he neglected Germany, and sought to involve its princes in wars undertaken solely for private aggrandizement or personal jealousy.

He had accumulated an immense private fortune, possessing in addition to his see the revenues of seven abbeys.

And before 1725, readings, both public and private, were given from Cartesian texts in some of the Parisian colleges.

When the republicans triumphed Martos retired into exile, and soon afterwards into private life.