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secrecy

/see-kruh-see/US // ˈsi krə si //UK // (ˈsiːkrɪsɪ) //

秘密,保密性,隐秘性,秘密性

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural se·cre·cies for 5.

    • : the state or condition of being secret, hidden, or concealed: a meeting held in secrecy.
    • : the state of being apart from other people; privacy; seclusion.
    • : ability to keep a secret.
    • : the habit or characteristic of being secretive; reticence.
    • : Archaic. something that is secret or mysterious: the secrecies of nature.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounconcealment

Examples

  • The infusions, Hart writes in the Times story, were consistent with “a culture of coercion, secrecy and possible medical malpractice in the Oregon Project.”

  • Arise and most of its corporate clients consider preserving the secrecy of this arrangement to be vital.

  • Palantir began trading Wednesday as a public company, ending a 17-year tradition of secrecy surrounding the software business co-founded by Peter Thiel.

  • Crump added that the juror accused Cameron of “hiding behind secrecy requirements while misleading the public about what evidence the grand jury actually saw.”

  • At issue is the use of “secrecy envelopes,” which are designed to protect the privacy of the voter.

  • Some secrets, it seems, must be kept even from elected representatives who could still be sworn to secrecy.

  • The FSLN-controlled legislative assembly approved the mega-project under a cloud of secrecy in a record seven days.

  • To date, much of the details of the diplomacy and even the interim deal between Iran and the West are shrouded in secrecy.

  • But the secrecy and fear surrounding the once-successful quarantine has now put the region in even greater danger.

  • So more than half of this outside money is now spread around behind either partial or total secrecy.

  • Their sin began on Holy Thursday, with so little secrecy and so bad an example, that the affair was beginning to leak out.

  • He has evidently some prodigious secret, which he is determined to envelope in still deeper secrecy.

  • They are all sworn to the closest secrecy; have been told that our lives depend upon their discretion.

  • The mental block remained firm and he succeeded in carrying on actual preparations for his departure in complete secrecy.

  • That evening Grace swore her room-mate to eternal secrecy, and then showed her the book.