privately
- adverb
- /ˈpraɪvɪtli/
- Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
- privately owned
- privately funded
- publicly and privately
And so I started to list and describe books made privately and given as gifts.
- And so I started to list and describe books made privately and given as gifts.
- So our, our eldest daughter was privately adopted.
- He's the CEO and founder of Europe's most highly valued fintech privately held company.
- It would ban privately owned cultivation sites and dispensaries.
- You've talked to so many great leaders in this world privately and and publicly.
- And Ricky fascinating projects publicly and privately funded.
- That right, in fact, rests on the ability to privately exclude certain people and behavior from your group.
- Our fund was in a family of what's known as private equity, where you invest in privately held companies.
- Yeah, I mean, like SpaceX is also privately for hire for a trip around the moon, right?
Examples
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Although Korean industry was privately owned, the commercial banking sector was under state control.
Academic text (1991) -
In my frustration, I spoke to some of the students privately about this.
Academic text (2013) -
It's the only privately held real estate in Central Park.
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Or, you could either write individual students a note or comment to them privately about their efforts.
Academic text (1991) -
It's privately owned out in the Pacific Northwest.
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This is a privately-funded operation.
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Great Benefit is owned by PinnConn, a privately held corporation whose owners are hard to pin down.
Fiction book (1995) -
I've been studying privately with Coach Podell.
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Unfortunately though, we can't get any closer to the island since it privately owned and the owner has made it very clear that until those eggs are hatched he will allow no visitors.
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The charity operates privately to avoid government interference.
Synonyms
In private and not open to the public
In a private way so no one else knows
Antonyms
Compounds
A company owned by a few people whose shares are not sold on public stock markets
How Private
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Privately comes from the Latin word privatus, meaning 'separate' or 'for oneself', and it shares this root with private and privacy. So doing something privately in this sense means it belongs to individuals or private groups rather than the government.