Legal Definition and Related Resources of Private

Meaning of Private

Affecting or belonging to individuals, as distinct from the public generally; not clothed wijh office.

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Synonyms of Private

(Confidential), adjective

abstruse
arcane
arcanus
clandestine
closet
concealed
covert
cryptic
cryptical
dark
esoteric
esoterical
hidden
intimate
inviolable
mysterious
offtherecord
personal
privy
recondite
secret
undercover
undisclosable
undivulgable
unrevealable Associated Concepts: private papers
private writings

(Not public), adjective

closed
confined
exclusive
individual
individualized
limited
nonofficial
nonpublic
not open
personalized
privatus
reserved
restricted
select
unofficial Associated Concepts: private action
private agreement
private bill
private carrier
private corporation
private detective
private dwelling
private employment
private enterprise
private grant
private institution
private investigator
private nuissance
private property
private purposes
private sale
private Statute
private trust
private useforeign phrases: Privatum incommodum publico bono pensatur
Private inconvenience is compensated for by public benefit
Pactis privatorum juri publico non derogatur
Private contracts do not derogate from public law
Jura publica anteferenda privatis
Public rights are to be preferred to private rights

(Secluded), adjective

apart
cloistered
hidden
inaccessible
insular
isolated
outoftheway
quiet
remote
removed
seclusive
separate
solitary
unfrequented

Grammar

This term is an adjetive.

Etimology of Private

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late 14c., “pertaining or belonging to oneself, not shared, individual; not open to the public;” of a religious rule, “not shared by Christians generally, distinctive; from Latin privatus “set apart, belonging to oneself (not to the state), peculiar, personal,” used in contrast to publicus, communis; past participle of privare “to separate, deprive,” from privus “one’s own, individual,” from PIE *prei-wo-, from PIE *prai-, *prei-, from root *per- (1) “forward, through” (see per). Old English in this sense had syndrig. Private grew popular 17c. as an alternative to common (adj.), which had overtones of condescension. Of persons, “not holding public office,” recorded from early 15c. In private “privily” is from 1580s. Related: Privately. Private school is from 1650s. Private parts “the pudenda” is from 1785. Private enterprise first recorded 1797; private property by 1680s; private sector is from 1948. Private eye “private detective” is recorded from 1938, American English.

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