What is "in private"

Private \Pri"vate\ (pr[imac]"v[asl]t), n.

1. A secret message; a personal unofficial communication. [Obs.]
   --Shak.

2. Personal interest; particular business.[Obs.]

   Nor must I be unmindful of my private.
   --B. Jonson.

3. Privacy; retirement. [Archaic] ``Go off; I discard you; let me enjoy my private.''
   --Shak.

4. One not invested with a public office. [Archaic]

   What have kings, that privates have not too?
   --Shak.

5. (Mil.) A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer.
   --Macaulay.

6. pl. The private parts; the genitals.

   In private, secretly; not openly or publicly.

adv. privately, where no one else can see and/or hear what one is doing or saying.

adv. kept private or confined to those intimately concerned; "it was discussed privately between the two men"; "privately, she thought differently"; "some member of his own party hoped privately for his defeat"; "he was questioned in private" [syn: privately, in camera] [ant: publicly]

"In Private" was the third single in a row to be a charting success for British singer Dusty Springfield, after nearly two decades of little chart success. Both "In Private" and Springfield's previous single, " Nothing Has Been Proved" were produced by Pet Shop Boys, who helped return Springfield to prominence with their 1987 hit collaboration " What Have I Done to Deserve This?". Both Springfield singles were included on her 1990 British album Reputation.