Word Finder - privates

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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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The genitalia; those body parts that are not normally displayed, private parts

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His privates were undamaged.

They used Billie's privates for an ashtray.

Cromwell chose his own troops, both officers and privates, from the" religious men,"who fought not for pay or for adventure, but for their faith.

Cromwell soon restored order, and the representative council, including privates as well as officers chosen to negotiate with the parliament, was subordinated to the council of war.

He now entered the artillery regiment, La Fere, quartered at Valence, and went through all the duties imposed on privates, and thereafter those of a corporal and a sergeant.

There is a military academy at Caracas, and battalion schools are provided for officers and privates, but they are of little value.

In the cavalry and artillery many of the privates were foreigners, numbers of the janissaries who escaped the massacre at Stamboul (1832) having joined Mehemet Alis army.

The sirdar selected these native officers from those of Arabis followers who had been the least prominent in the recent mutiny; non-commissioned officers who had been drill-instructors in the old army were recalled temporarily, but all the privates were conscripted from their villages.

The persons on board the fleet included 564 male and 192 female convicts, and a detachment of marines, consisting of Major Ross, commandant, 16 officers, 24 non-commissioned officers, an adjutant and quartermaster, 160 privates and 40 women.

He had aboard his two ships, the " Lady Nelson " of 60 tons and the whaler " Albion " of 3 06 tons, three officials, a lance-corporal and seven privates of the New South Wales Corps, six free men and twenty-five convicts, together with an adequate supply of live stock, and landed at Risdon, near Hobart, where he was joined shortly afterwards by fifteen soldiers and forty-two convicts.

The three privates were executed by firing squad against the walls of the ruined 16th-century castle in the village on May 27, 1916.

So the Sergeant major gets a meat cleaver and chops his privates off!

This will prove painful to your privates in the hungover morning.

From privates to general they were not expecting a battle and were engaged in peaceful occupations, the cavalry feeding the horses and the infantry collecting wood.