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Private Definition
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–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 presence 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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Equity Definition–noun, plural -ties. | 1. | the quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality: the equity of Solomon. | | 2. | something that is fair and just. | | 3. | Law. | a. | the application of the dictates of conscience or the principles of natural justice to the settlement of controversies. | | b. | a system of jurisprudence or a body of doctrines and rules developed in England and followed in the U.S., serving to supplement and remedy the limitations and the inflexibility of the common law. | | c. | an equitable right or claim. | | d. | an equity of redemption. | | | 4. | the monetary value of a property or business beyond any amounts owed on it in mortgages, claims, liens, etc. | | 5. | Informal. ownership, esp. when considered as the right to share in future profits or appreciation in value. | | 6. | the interest of the owner of common stock in a corporation. | | 7. | (in a margin account) the excess of the market value of the securities over any indebtedness. | |
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