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21privy counsellor — privy councillor or privy counsellor noun (also with caps) • • • Main Entry: ↑privy …
22privy to something — phrase knowing about something, usually official information, that other people do not know He had not been privy to their talks. Thesaurus: knowing and knowing about somethingsynonym Main entry: privy …
23privy to — allowed to know about (something secret) I wasn t privy to their plans. [=I didn t know about their plans] • • • Main Entry: ↑privy …
24Privy Council — (engl., spr. priwwĭ kaunßil), s. Council und Großbritannien, S. 374; Privy Councillor, geheimer Staatsrat, Mitglied des P. C …
25Privy Council — index bench Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 Privy Council …
26Privy Seal — Privy Seal, the →↑Lord Privy Seal, the …
27Privy Council, the — noun in the U.K. and some other countries, a group of people whose official job is to advise the queen or king on how to govern the country but who now have no real power ╾ ,Privy Councillor noun count …
28privy — [adj1] secret buried, concealed, confidential, covert, hidden, hush hush*, obscured, off the record*, personal, private, separate, shrouded, ulterior; concepts 267,576 Ant. known, public, revealed privy [adj2] aware acquainted, apprised,… …
29privy — ► ADJECTIVE (privy to) ▪ sharing in the knowledge of (something secret). ► NOUN (pl. privies) ▪ a toilet in a small shed outside a house. DERIVATIVES privily adverb. ORIGIN Old French prive private , also private place , from Latin priva …
30privy council — n. a body of advisors or confidential counselors appointed by or serving a ruler, esp. a monarch privy councilor n …
