closed
- adjective
- /kloʊzd/
- Access to the closed event required an invitation, ensuring only selected guests could attend.
Are they in permissioned or closed blockchains?
- Are they in permissioned or closed blockchains?
- And, and, but you'd shared your story a million times in closed groups, right?
- Basically, there was no words of open or closed adoptions.
- Other industries like churches, malls and fitness centers will be closed on a three day monitoring list.
Examples
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The trial continued behind closed doors on Tuesday in the imposing gray stone Chengdu City Intermediate People's Court.
Blog text (22) -
But this is a CLOSED adoption and will remain so.
Blog text (18) -
Victoria: This Is A Closed Party.
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Usually the results get him in trouble, and then Mom and Dad laugh behind closed doors.
Blog text (7) -
But behind closed doors, Great Britain and France sealed a secret deal.
Academic text (2003) -
I'm tired of feeling like we have to hide behind closed doors.
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Their leaders regularly lobby members of Congress behind closed doors and often meet privately with the president and his administration.
Blog text (4) -
President Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia spent marathon sessions behind closed doors with the Somali leaders.
Academic text (1993) -
The company held a closed meeting to discuss sensitive financial matters, inviting only key executives.
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The investigation took place in a closed setting, with only authorized personnel permitted inside.
Synonyms
Only for one person, group, or purpose and not shared
Not allowed to enter, use, or talk about
Not open, for example a door or your eyes
Not open to the public and held privately by a small group
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To do something easily without thinking because you trust or know it well
Compounds
A system of cameras and monitors that records and shows images for security, not for public broadcast
An election to choose a party candidate in which only registered members of the party can vote
- Specialized
A system that uses feedback to keep things like temperature at the right level
- Specialized
A model of the universe whose space curves and contains enough matter to stop and reverse its expansion
- Specialized
A company that sells a set number of shares that trade on the stock market
- Specialized
A curve with no endpoints that comes back to its starting point, like a circle
A plant with blue or purple flowers shaped like a tube that stay mostly closed
- Specialized
A sudden eye condition when the colored part blocks fluid leaving the front of the eye, raising eye pressure quickly
- Specialized
A word from a small fixed set that helps show grammar, like in or and
- Specialized
A company that issues a fixed number of shares which are traded on a stock market
- Specialized
A company whose shares are owned by a small group and not sold to the public
- Specialized
Heart surgery done through a small cut without opening the chest
- Specialized
A control system that uses information from sensors to adjust itself automatically
- Specialized
A system that recovers, cleans, and reuses materials to avoid waste
- Specialized
A curved line on a flat surface that makes a closed loop without crossing itself, like a circle
How Restricted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Closed comes from the old Latin claudere meaning 'to shut'. A 'closed' meeting is like a room shut to outsiders, so only certain people are allowed to enter.