Private Definition–adjective | 1. | belonging to some particular person: private property. | | 2. | pertaining to or affecting a particular person or a small group of persons; individual; personal: for your private satisfaction. | | 3. | confined to or intended only for the persons immediately concerned; confidential: a private meeting. | | 4. | personal and not publicly expressed: one's private feelings. | | 5. | not holding public office or employment: private citizens. | | 6. | not of an official or public character: private life. | | 7. | removed from or out of public view or knowledge; secret: private papers. | | 8. | not open or accessible to the general public: a private beach. | | 9. | undertaken individually or personally: private research. | | 10. | without the presen
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ce of others; alone. | | 12. | preferring privacy; retiring: a very private person. | | 13. | intimate; most personal: private behavior. | | 14. | of, having, or receiving special hospital facilities, privileges, and services, esp. a room of one's own and liberal visiting hours: a private room; a private patient. | | 15. | of lowest military rank. | | 16. | of, pertaining to, or coming from nongovernmental sources: private funding. | –noun | 17. | a soldier of one of the three lowest enlisted ranks. | —Idiom | 19. | in private, not publicly; secretly: The hearing will be conducted in private. | |
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Detective Definition–noun | 1. | a member of the police force or a private investigator whose function is to obtain information and evidence, as of offenses against the law. | –adjective | 2. | of or pertaining to detection or detectives: a detective story. | | 3. | serving to detect; detecting: various detective devices. | |
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