confidential matters

  • 1confidential — [kän΄fə den′shəl] adj. 1. told in confidence; imparted in secret 2. of or showing trust in another; confiding 3. entrusted with private or secret matters [a confidential agent] SYN. FAMILIAR confidentiality [kän΄fə den′shē al′ə tē] n.… …

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  • 2confidential — confidentiality, confidentialness, n. confidentially, adv. /kon fi den sheuhl/, adj. 1. spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark. 2. indicating confidence or intimacy; imparting private matters …

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  • 3confidential — /kɒnfəˈdɛnʃəl / (say konfuh denshuhl) adjective 1. spoken or written in confidence; secret: a confidential document. 2. betokening confidence or intimacy; imparting private matters: a confidential tone. 3. enjoying another s confidence; entrusted …

  • 4confidential — con•fi•den•tial [[t]ˌkɒn fɪˈdɛn ʃəl[/t]] adj. 1) spoken, written, or acted on in strict confidence; secret; private 2) indicating confidence or intimacy; imparting private matters: a confidential tone of voice[/ex] 3) entrusted with secrets or… …

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  • 5confidential communications — These are certain classes of communications, passing between persons who stand in a confidential or fiduciary relation to each other (or who, on account of their relative situation, are under a special duty of secrecy and fidelity), which the law …

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  • 6confidential communications — These are certain classes of communications, passing between persons who stand in a confidential or fiduciary relation to each other (or who, on account of their relative situation, are under a special duty of secrecy and fidelity), which the law …

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  • 7confidential advisor — advisor who can be trusted with secret matters …

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  • 8PRC internal media — The Chinese internal document system protects China’s officials from being blinded by their own elaborate system of media control. As He Qinglian documents in chapter four of Media Control in China [… …

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  • 9historiography — historiographic /hi stawr ee euh graf ik, stohr /, historiographical, adj. historiographically, adv. /hi stawr ee og reuh fee, stohr /, n., pl. historiographies. 1. the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively. 2 …

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  • 10secret — secretly, adv. secretness, n. /see krit/, adj. 1. done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others: secret negotiations. 2. kept from the knowledge of any but the initiated or privileged: a secret password. 3. faithful or cautious in… …

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