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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
confidentiality
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
commercial
▪ The suggestion that we should publish the amount paid for each company raises difficult problems of commercial confidentiality.
▪ All that is concealed beneath a cloak of commercial confidentiality.
patient
▪ Mark Bechard was no secret to mental-health workers in his home state of Maine, though patient confidentiality shrouds his troubled past.
▪ Asked about how issues involving patient confidentiality were best dealt with, one doctor replied: below.
▪ And a new, and very serious question, has been raised concerning patient confidentiality.
■ NOUN
agreement
▪ When presented with the draft confidentiality agreement, the purchaser should ensure that there are adequate exemptions to the confidentiality obligation.
▪ It is normally circulated under covering letter and will incorporate a confidentiality agreement.
▪ Finally, I annex by way of an Appendix a schedule of companies who have signed the confidentiality agreement and their status.
▪ If a separate confidentiality agreement has not been signed an appropriate undertaking can be embodied in the heads.
▪ In order to ensure prompt despatch of the Information memorandum to you please fax the signed confidentiality agreement to me on.
▪ It may be that the purchaser signed a confidentiality agreement at the outset of negotiations.
undertaking
▪ The purchaser should be prepared to sign a target's confidentiality undertaking.
▪ The vendor is likely to agree to the target's providing this information only if the purchaser enters into a confidentiality undertaking.
■ VERB
breach
▪ Faceless, unqualified reviewers define our work, remove our colleagues from panels and routinely breach confidentiality.
cite
▪ Alexander declined comment, citing attorney-client confidentiality.
▪ A spokesman for Morgan Grenfell in London declined any comment on the allegations contained in the Codelco suit, citing client confidentiality.
▪ Family services officials refused Sunday to comment on the incident, citing state confidentiality laws that preclude them from discussing specific cases.
ensure
▪ In such situations we take appropriate measures to ensure that strict confidentiality is maintained in all respects.
▪ This is often done through an independent third party, such as a debt collecting agency, to ensure confidentiality.
▪ Care must be taken to ensure that any specific confidentiality concerns of the client are addressed.
maintain
▪ Firstly there are undertakings to maintain the confidentiality of business secrets and not to use them except for limited purposes.
▪ Inform and support relatives as appropriate. Maintain professional confidentiality.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Alexander declined to comment, citing attorney--client confidentiality.
▪ Data encryption ensures the privacy and confidentiality of email messages.
▪ Researchers should always be able to guarantee complete confidentiality for their subjects.
▪ The health clinic has again been caught violating patient confidentiality.
▪ You doctor should not have told your parents about the abortion -- that was a blatant breach of confidentiality.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alexander declined comment, citing attorney-client confidentiality.
▪ But congressional investigators said bank claims of confidentiality kept them from establishing precisely how much profit banks are reaping from the surcharges.
▪ Information memoranda should not be sent to interested parties until a signed confidentiality letter has been received.
▪ Please forward the profile to your client, together with the attached confidentiality letter.
▪ Short confidentiality clauses in standard conditions are really only precautionary measures to be relied upon in an emergency.
▪ The confidentiality letter should cover both the memorandum and also any additional information which might be subsequently released.
▪ The appropriate method will depend on the business being sold, the confidentiality required, and the anticipated demand from purchasers.
▪ The purchaser should be prepared to sign a target's confidentiality undertaking.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
confidentiality

confidentiality \confidentiality\ n. the state or attribute of being secret; privacy; as, you must respect the confidentiality of your client's communications.

2. discretion in keeping secret information.

Wiktionary
confidentiality

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The property of being confidential. 2 (context countable English) Something told in confidence; a secret.

WordNet
confidentiality

  1. n. the state of being secret; "you must respect the confidentiality of your client's communications"

  2. discretion in keeping secret information

Wikipedia
Confidentiality

Confidentiality involves a set of rules or a promise that limits access or places restrictions on certain types of information.

Usage examples of "confidentiality".

I was not at liberty to reveal to him for reasons of confidentiality relating to price sensitive information.

He lifted the list of regular Doms provided by The Zone in exchange for a confidentiality agreement.

Part of the condition of the sale was that each partner was required to sign a side confidentiality agreement--a nondisclosure agreement.

Thick documents had been signed by the lawyers promising complete confidentiality concerning the Dyloft negotiations and settlement.

The route brought him closer to the Betacam, and Minh, swinging it as a reflex action, caught him full-face and in light so, in effect, Godoy violated his own confidentiality.

Damien grew to trust the therapist, and over time, in what he believed was the confidentiality of their sessions, he made several statements, which she recorded in her notes.

She wants to assure him on the confidentiality angle, but she also wants to tell him about Heather.

The lawyers went back and forth then--about legalities, about confidentiality, about constitutional guarantees and juvenile rights.

She had mentioned a confidentiality agreement to be drawn up and signed.

I was operating on the assumption that his field notes were sensitive and that he'd made some effort to secure the confidentiality of the contents.

Sued by his former boss Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh for violating confidentiality agreements Toobin signed with the office, a Kennedy-appointed federal appeals court judge found he had engaged in “conduct which manipulates procedure” and harshly denounced his “dubious behavior.

It wasn't easy for a uniformed admiral of the Royal Manticoran Navy, escorted by three uniformed bodyguards, to pass unnoticed anywhere, but confidentiality was often something Briarwood had to take into consideration.

Franz Illescue said stiffly, "on behalf of Briarwood Reproduction Center, I offer you my sincere and personal apologies for our inexcusable violation of your confidentiality.

The Cap had almost shot Doc Lesnick's confidentiality on the psych files--blowing the whistle on Minear squealing Loftis--just when they were getting close on the blackmail angle and Felix Gordean.

Davey's my ears, that's how much I respect the cardinal virtue of confidentiality!