adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
privately held
▪ a privately held company
publicly/privately ownedBritish English (= belonging to the government or a private organization)
▪ a privately owned company
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
owned
▪ Rules were relaxed to allow the first privately owned locomotives unlimited access to the national rail network.
▪ The dead stock was usually sold in one or other of the privately owned auction marts.
▪ Fujisankei, itself privately owned and independent, seems the ideal partner.
▪ We have also been influenced by representations about the position of privately owned companies held on discretionary trusts.
▪ It will in part become local, privately owned and controlled consultants.
▪ The news media, themselves privately owned and controlled, convey an image of society which support dominant class interests.
▪ The new vehicles built as replacements during the 1980s were generally of higher capacity, privately owned and fitted with air brakes.
▪ It was an interview broadcast by a privately owned company, said to be not unfriendly to the Conservatives.
rented
▪ Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity.
▪ Conversely, privately rented dwellings had fallen in proportion from 44.6 percent at the former date to 16 percent in 1975.
▪ In fact, only about half of young higher education students live in privately rented accommodation.
▪ They remain very vulnerable in privately rented accommodation as they can often be ignorant of their rights.
▪ She has two children aged four and two years, and lives in a privately rented unfurnished flat.
▪ For many in local authority or privately rented accommodation, the sense of frustration and powerlessness can be overwhelming.
▪ A third of local authority dwellings lack any central heating, as does 64% of unfurnished privately rented accommodation.
■ VERB
admit
▪ A few businessmen admit privately to admiring his honesty, if not always his fervour.
▪ But both sides privately admit that older voters will be a major target and states with many retirees will be major battlefields.
▪ Party candidates privately admit that regular meetings could have jeopardised Labour's chances.
educate
▪ When this school closed, he was educated privately at home.
▪ He was educated privately and at Rossall, and went on to study architecture under a tutor at Cambridge.
▪ He was educated privately in London, and as a young man studied art in Paris.
▪ He was educated privately at academies in Margate.
▪ She was privately educated, then went to Edinburgh University and passed part of the preliminary examination in medicine.
▪ She was educated privately at Lissadell Court, the family estate in county Sligo, Ireland.
▪ Jabelman was privately educated, and had nurtured his talent as a painter at art school.
▪ More than two-thirds were privately educated and 400 went to Eton.
express
▪ In Washington, senior officials privately expressed wariness.
▪ Indeed, Humphrey had privately expressed grave reservations about the war, which Johnson had ignored.
finance
▪ In addition to public funding, much health care is financed privately by both companies and individuals.
▪ If more were financed privately then taxation could be reduced and incentives increased accordingly.
▪ Headed by Jack Kemp, this largely Republican commission was privately financed.
▪ We have also been in negotiation to privately finance a port facility in joint venture with Central Government and the Local Authority.
▪ The channel tunnel is entirely privately financed.
fund
▪ He also asked for a voluntary moratorium on embryo research that is privately funded.
hold
▪ S., most timber is grown on privately held land and is sold at auction.
▪ Most recently, he was chief executive officer of Cibus Pharmaceutical Inc., a privately held drugdelivery company.
▪ Y., it remains privately held.
▪ Pursue is a privately held energy company.
▪ P., his privately held company, of $ 2 billion.
▪ Barneys does not disclose financial information because it is privately held.
▪ The privately held company, founded in 1989, is one of the fastest-growing technology startups.
meet
▪ Moakley met privately with Castro for 90 minutes Wednesday night before a buffet reception in which Castro mingled with the delegation.
▪ Congressional leaders Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott are meeting privately with him.
▪ Gephardt spent the weekend in Los Angeles meeting privately with union leaders.
▪ Chernomyrdin will meet privately with Clinton on Saturday.
▪ He also met privately with supporters at the home of Enron chief Ken Lay to plot future fund-raising efforts.
▪ After ethics committee members question the two sides, they will meet privately to decide on a punishment recommendation.
▪ He and the first lady then met privately with individual family members.
negotiate
▪ The minimum for Professors is £29,949, with each individual's remuneration being privately negotiated with the university authorities.
▪ Meanwhile, despite the presence of Alan, Rich Brooks is still trying to negotiate privately with Jody.
▪ Airlines usually negotiate privately with manufacturers, playing one off against another, of course.
▪ The repurchases will continue to be made on the New York Stock Exchange or in privately negotiated transactions, it said.
own
▪ Capital is privately owned by a minority, the capitalist class.
▪ The villas themselves looked better than before, deserted except for the few that were privately owned and still habitable.
▪ Although most farmland is privately owned the landscape is publicly consumed.
▪ S.-led international space station, as well as Department of Defense cargo and privately owned communications and Earth-observing satellites.
▪ As often as not, land reforms consist of turning large privately owned farms into state-or communally owned cooperatives.
▪ The district covers more than 7 million acres of publicly and privately owned land.
run
▪ In contrast the great majority of nursing homes, 83 percent, were privately run.
▪ Fertility clinics and sperm banks in the United States often are privately run and are subject to few government restrictions.
▪ The majority of nursing homes are run privately.
▪ Others are privately run for the state.
▪ Standards vary enormously in privately run old people's homes and nursing homes.
▪ It leads to the stimulation of a privately run black economy as its crucial lubricant. 5.
▪ Of 99 universities serving a population of 36.9m, 48 are privately run.
▪ If the usual winter epidemic of flu causes overcrowding, arrangements have been made to treat patients in privately run hospitals.
say
▪ Far from it, what they say for public consumption appears to be at odds with what they are saying privately.
▪ I can just imagine what he was saying privately about Johnson en route.
▪ Although Pentagon spokesmen said they saw no need for further strikes soon, officials said privately that more were on the way.
▪ City officials refuse to talk about the case, but detectives say privately the trail has gone cold.
▪ Company executives say privately, however, that they would rather the firm remain independent.
▪ The Zapatistas' public support has dwindled in recent months, but officials say privately that Marcos remains a wild card.
▪ Many say privately that for whatever reason, too many black parents fail to work the system.
speak
▪ Instead she said something pompous about having information and wishing to speak privately, before backing out to wait her turn.
▪ They often spoke privately and, Jim thought, casually.
▪ When Tom and Dolly returned inside the cottage all chance of speaking privately to Carrie disappeared.
talk
▪ But to her disappointment there was no chance to talk privately with Luke himself.
▪ A day or two later, Mrs Maylie talked privately to her son.
think
▪ Whatever Laura privately thought of these pictures, revolutionary in their way, she insisted they be used.
▪ He believed that his survey would be of use, but privately thought of it as his escape.
▪ Sam Fong said he understood none of thern; he thought privately that if they could be deported, so could he.
▪ Willis deeply respected Richard, whom he privately thought of and sometimes called aloud, the Skipper.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
university-educated/well-educated/privately-educated etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ privately owned land
▪ Could I speak to you privately?
▪ Many villagers privately feared the worst.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Just before the First World War over 90 percent of households rented privately.
▪ Only around 15 out of 200 work privately at the moment.
▪ Popular, privately owned century-old hotel, awash with oriental rugs, rich mahogany, walnut panelling and other Victoriana.
▪ Some deacons and elders have privately told their ministers that they plan to resign in protest if it passes.
▪ That pessimism is privately echoed inside the administration.
▪ The privately owned land is a steep, rugged parcel of 171 acres near Highway 92.