private Définition - Anglais Dictionnaire | private Explications et Prononciations

A soldier of the rank of private.

OBS A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.

AdjectifCOMmore privateSUPmost private

Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.
1. Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. [ …] There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. […]

Not publicly known; not open; secret.

The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. [ …] The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.

Not accessible by the public.

Not traded by the public.

Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.

(US, of a room in a medical facility) Not shared with another patient.

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- These are the same vulture funds now flying over Greece, holding unrestructured private debt and gloating at the prospects of unwarranted profits at the expense of others’ misfortune.
- It may be necessary to meet in private with one or more of the senior staff to remind them that the organization is looking to build teams, not turfdoms.
- But Private Angelo is considered to be Britain's first filmset commercially distributed book.

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