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private

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Private \Pri"vate\ (pr[imac]"v[asl]t), n. A secret message; a personal unofficial communication. [Obs.] --Shak. Personal interest; particular business.[Obs.] Nor must I be unmindful of my private. --B. Jonson. Privacy; retirement. [Archaic] ``Go off; I ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
is a song by Japanese entertainer Ryōko Hirosue , written by Ringo Sheena . It was released as the B-side to her fourth single "Jeans" on October 7, 1998, and was the title track of her second studio album Private (1999). Hirosue performed it on her first ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group. n. 1 The lowest rank of the army. 2 A soldier of the rank of private. 3 (''in plural'' privates) A euphemistic term for the genitals. 4 (context obsolete English) ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a personal/private diary ▪ She later agreed to the publication of parts of her personal diary. a personal/private fortune ▪ She is one of the richest women in Britain, with an estimated personal fortune of £90 ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "pertaining or belonging to oneself, not shared, individual; not open to the public;" of a religious rule, "not shared by Christians generally, distinctive; from Latin privatus "set apart, belonging to oneself (not to the state), peculiar, personal," ...

Usage examples of private.

This accomplished woman gave her hand to Odenathus, who, from a private station, raised himself to the dominion of the East.

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The half-dozen executives and accountants from Andersen and Enron laughed and joked as they played a round of golf on a private Arizona course.

And even the private schools, traditionally viewed with suspicious dislike by state education officials, were hit by surprise inspections so seldom that the very act of an accreditation team, showing up unannounced at one of them, was tantamount to an accusation of educational hanky-panky.

Kiint could always use the human affinity band, but Edenists had found it almost impossible to sense any form of private Kiint communication.

He was drawn into the conversational circle against his will, having stood close enough to Keith to look as if he was with him, and had to suffer the looks of the Commission Officers at his affrontery to poach on their private preserve.

Under the terms of the Mutual Use Treaty, which had been hammered out during that momentary thaw in relations between England and the Celtic Federation, every settler on Mars had received an Allotment of acreage for private terraforming.

The Pannonian army was at this time commanded by Septimius Severus, a native of Africa, who, in the gradual ascent of private honors, had concealed his daring ambition, which was never diverted from its steady course by the allurements of pleasure, the apprehension of danger, or the feelings of humanity.

For nearly a century, the shortage of legally dissectable bodies pitted the anatomist against the private citizen.

Her thoughts had already resubmerged her in private considerations, therefore did she see naught of the annoyance which surely flared within me.

In his speech he assigned the alteration of the currency as the chief cause of the calamity, since it operated injuriously on all classes except the fundholder and annuitant, and by its ruinous effects on private contracts, as well as public payments, was calculated to endanger all kinds of property.

The original act creating the Court of Claims provided for an analogous procedure with appeals to the Supreme Court after which judgments in favor of claimants were to be referred to the Secretary of the Treasury for payments out of the general appropriation for the payment of private claims.

I see more of Charlie than he sees of me, for I am now thoroughly dug in at my stable clinic, and from my private hideout and post of observation in the tower -- yes, there is even a neat little tower on this archidiaconal horse-palace, to echo the larger tower of the same design on Glebe House -- I see him swanning around looking at once medieval and thoroughly of the moment, a priest among his people.

This, naturally, is only a private case of the archival potential of the Net.

This had begun ostentatiously as private swimming lessons, all three males being good swimmers, but as the hours passed the two men and one boy arrived each at his own sandy hollow in the rocks to which trickles of women and girls continually passed.