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in private

in private prepositional phrase: privately, in an area where no one else can see or hear.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Privately, in an area where no one else can see or hear.
    • We found a secluded spot where we could make out in private.
    • I do not think there is any member in this House who will not agree that that is the clean thing to do. Any member sitting on the Government benches will admit in private that that is the proper course for members who break faith.1914, Parliamentary Debates, volume 168, New Zealand, page 195
    Synonyms:
    backstage, in camera

in private meaning in Malayalam and Arabic

in private in Malayalam

secretly, in secret, privately
രഹസ്യമായി, ഗോപ്യമായി, ഒളിവിൽ, മറഞ്ഞ്, പൃഷ്ഠതഃ, മിഥഃ

in private in Arabic

privately
بِخَصُوصِيَّة biḵaṣūṣiyya

Synonyms of in private

Antonyms

Questions about in private

What does in private mean?
In private means privately, in an area where no one else can see or hear.
What is in private in Malayalam?
In private in Malayalam is രഹസ്യമായി, ഗോപ്യമായി, ഒളിവിൽ. See In private meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is in private?
In private is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in private in the dictionary

  1. in prime twig
  2. in principal
  3. in principle
  4. in print
  5. in prison
  6. in private
  7. in profile
  8. in progress
  9. in proper
  10. in propria persona
  11. in protest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in private (page history and authors); in private (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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