privately
私下里,私底下,私下,私下里说
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Definitions
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- : belonging to some particular person: private property.
- : pertaining to or affecting a particular person or a small group of persons; individual; personal: for your private satisfaction.
- : confined to or intended only for the persons immediately concerned; confidential: a private meeting.
- : personal and not publicly expressed: one's private feelings.
- : not holding public office or employment: private citizens.
- : not of an official or public character; unrelated to one's official job or position: a former senator who has returned to private life;a college president speaking in his private capacity as a legal expert.
- : removed from or out of public view or knowledge; secret: private papers.
- : not open or accessible to the general public: a private beach.
- : undertaken individually or personally: private research.
- : without the presence of others; alone: Let's go into another room where we can be private.
- : solitary; secluded: He wants to meet us in a more private place.
- : preferring privacy; retiring: a very private person.
- : intimate; most personal: private behavior.
- : of, having, or receiving special hospital facilities, privileges, and services, especially a room of one's own and liberal visiting hours: a private room; a private patient.
- : of lowest military rank.
- : of, relating to, or coming from nongovernmental sources: private funding.
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- : a soldier of one of the three lowest enlisted ranks.
- : privates. private parts.
Phrases
- private eye
- free (private) enterprise
- in private
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
For private events, crowd sizes are limited to 25 people, indoors and outside.
He asked a private gym in New Jersey, but then the state announced travel restrictions.
The spirit of Mexico’s water laws mean proposals like Comice’s can’t promise the same kind of private financing WinWerks can.
My daughter’s small private school, which we loved, had given us the option of going virtual in light of the pandemic while still offering face-to-face learning to those who needed it.
With “The Missing American,” Quartey has launched a series with private investigator Emma Djan.
But privately, it is listening to other theories, including those about an inside job.
I learn by the third day to tell the nurse privately to make mine mostly orange juice.
Donovan had been privately concerned that running statewide would hurt his standing back home.
But privately, according to Trierweiler, Hollande slithered back and attempted to rekindle the mortally wounded relationship.
Designed for “special missions,” the privately owned company is capable of transporting precious cargo anywhere in the world.
Neither privately owned nor government stock is entitled to voting power.
Many gallants 'took' their tobacco in the lords room over the stage, and went out to (Saint) Paul's to spit there privately.
However, he had not and could not see the Bishop privately long enough to secure from him a promise.
If your intimacy will allow it, speak of the fault upon another occasion, kindly and privately, or let it pass.
He, at any rate, was not likely to have moved a finger against Bruce; on the contrary, he no doubt privately aided him.