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semiprivate

/sem-ee-prahy-vit, sem-ahy-/US // ˌsɛm iˈpraɪ vɪt, ˌsɛm aɪ- //

半私密性,半私人的,半私密,半私人

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having some degree of privacy but not fully private, as a hospital room with fewer beds than a ward.

Examples

  • Former top New York Times editor Jill Abramson wrote in praise of McNeil’s reporting and suggested that Times readers hadn’t been hurt by what he said in a semiprivate setting.

  • He strolled about, reading the names over the small shops, the corner public house, the dressmakers' semiprivate residences.