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📖 Определения и значения для слова privately

📒 independently; in a way that is not under control of the state

  • a privately owned company
  • In public he supported the official policy, but privately he was sure it would fail.
  • Their children were educated privately.

📒 in a secret way that involves a particular person or group of people, and not people in general

  • Can we speak privately?

📒 in somebody's personal thoughts; in a way that is not known about in public

  • She smiled, but privately she was furious.

📒 to one person or a small group of people for payment

  • She gave piano lessons privately.

📒 directly between the person who sells something and the person who buys it; not involving a shop

  • The painting was sold privately for £4m.
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