Synonym: in camera, privately. Similar words: private, privately, private school, private sector, private property, the private sector, privation, privatize. Meaning: adv. kept private or confined to those intimately concerned.
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(91) The relationship is analogous to that in private markets between a seller with no alternative customer and a customer with no alternative supplier.
(92) Managers in public industries are often paid quite differently from those in private industry.
(93) By a 45-vote majority the Congress supported the continuation of the monetary reform policy freezing an estimated US$115,000 million in private financial assets.
(94) To avoid upsetting the kids, Dad spoke to Mum more than once in private, telling her to put a sock in it.
(95) But in private we are comfortable living with ourselves - we just don't always admit it to ourselves.
(96) You hear the same sort of thing from people who worked with Bush in private enterprise.
(97) Their aging parents will be looked after in private homes.
(98) May I ask the House not to indulge in private conversations.
(99) King, a divorcee, had to struggle to make tuition payments when her children were in private schools.
(100) However, some elderly people have gone to live in private developments without properly investigating all the extra costs involved.
(101) In an interview Saturday night in Washington, Fujimori said considerable progress has been made in private talks with the rebels. Sentencedict.com
(102) In private industry, a budget analyst examines, analyzes, and seeks new ways to improve efficiency and increase profits.
(103) The regulations state specifically that such investigations shall be held in private, and this sometimes leads to misunderstanding.
(104) It recommends that the government reduce spending to encourage growth in private industry to bring about faster rates of economic growth.
(105) He'd even questioned some of the older members of the Lucy Ghosts in private to help trace the fugitive.
(106) In private practice, and by virtue of his influential writings, Maudsley soon became the leading alienist of his generation.
(107) Great for long journeys, or whenever you want to listen to the radio in private.
(108) The four-day hearing was in private but the panel's 37-page report is in the public domain.
(109) Only a few items sold in private markets, such as automobile seat belts[sentencedict.com], serve the sole function of increasing safety.
(110) The providers of those services would stay in private business but would no longer send bills to myriad insurers and government agencies.
(111) Yesterday's newspapers contained the usual number of advertisements for abortions in private clinics.
(112) The investigation is held in private but the authority and individuals concerned may comment on the allegations.
(113) Eccentrics talk to themselves; some of us address incessant memos to ourselves; many people write in private journals.
(114) For some years leading Labour politicians have offered two separate justifications for the block vote - one in public, the other in private.
(115) Mr Heseltine's behaviour both in public and in private throughout recent months has commanded warm admiration from his Cabinet colleagues.
(116) And above all, it means that the government can not, in private, pre-empt consensus.
(117) Although people occasionally discussed questions of local autonomy in private, they rarely raised them, even obliquely, in public.
(118) We will extend the security of tenure in private rented accommodation to a similar level to that enjoyed by council tenants.
(119) This legitimate expectation was recognized only in public law and not in private law.
(120) Both types of superior have measures of the organization's overall performance - profits in private firms, popularity in governments.
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