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UK
/pɹˈaɪvətli/
]
[ US /ˈpɹaɪvətɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹaɪvətɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
by a private person or interest
a privately financed campaign -
kept private or confined to those intimately concerned
it was discussed privately between the two men
privately, she thought differently
some member of his own party hoped privately for his defeat
he was questioned in private
How To Use privately In A Sentence
- Moe is a 32 year old privately-owned chimp kept in a backyard in Los Angeles.
- Union officials privately acknowledge that Phoenix's achilles heel has always been the difficulties it would face raising the necessary finance.
- If those consumers think the drug industrial monopolists already charge too much for pills and panaceas, just wait until the privately patented and monopolized ‘stem cell cures’ hit the market…
- A majority of shareholders supported the motion, Mr Breuer privately conceded.
- But again, if the subject is sensitive, the colloquy among the attorneys, prospective jurors, and judge can be held privately at the bench.
- Privately, many senators and congressmen have a similar feeling.
- Perhaps we can talk somewhere privately," said Kesler.
- But it was privately, not through the government, and not for advanced field training, but for graduate study.
- There is a lot of sense for eight or nine of the major heads of state getting together privately to discuss issues in an informal way without this huge caravanserai of pressmen and aides and assistants.
- That could see Tommy Bridewell aboard the Quay Garage Honda posing questions of the title chasing pack as he ran only marginally down in seventh place ahead of Alastair Seeley on the second Relentless Suzuki and Chris Walker riding his privately entered Suzuki Roadracingworld.com