confidential
15
5.6
- adjective
- /ˌkɒnfɪˈdɛnʃəl/
:
de confianza
- The aims of criminal investigation conflicted with the need to maintain a confidential relationship with the client.
- a confidential source
- confidential information
Undue influence has also been found in where a confidential relationship in the usual sense does not exist.
- Undue influence has also been found in where a confidential relationship in the usual sense does not exist.
- I talked to one of the confidential informants, a gun seller in the pre operation called wide receiver, a guy from Arizona.
- We were working with these, these they're like kind of confidential, very high up in the killing, you know, for the government type stuff.
Examples
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I am sorry, but the confidential relationship between doctor and patient...
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Mrs. Yerby didn't seem to notice that she had made Julie uncomfortable and continued in a confidential tone.
Fiction book (2001) -
Listen, I promise you... ...I will protect you as a confidential source.
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Miss Grant, my confidential secretary.
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Well, what I do is I give everyone confidential feedback.
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Mr. Risen has been under constant pressure from the Justice Department to reveal his confidential sources.
Blog text (24) -
Now that Cora had someone specific to address, her tone became more confidential.
Academic text (2010) -
Because Wilfred Johnson has been a confidential informant for the FBI for the past 19 years.
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I don't want to interrupt this gorgeous moment but we don't have time now because I got information from a very confidential source that Huntington is trying to kill someone on this team tonight.
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The lawyer assured her that all discussions would remain confidential to protect her privacy.
Antonyms
How Trusted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Confidential for a person comes from the same Latin confidere 'to trust', so a confidential person is someone who is trusted with private matters. That's why a confidential role is one where people can give you secrets or sensitive information.