Private - English meaning

adjective

Concerned with or engaged in commerce.

Usage examples:

A commercial agreement

noun

A television or radio advertisement.

Usage examples:

They looked like a family from a breakfast cereal commercial

noun

Connected with or engaged in the exchange of goods

verb

Transfer (a nationalized industry or institution) from public to private ownership.

Usage examples:

An attempt to denationalize the state monopolies

verb

Past simple and past participle of denationalize

noun

A person, animal, or large machine that digs earth.

Usage examples:

As men and women watched in tears, the diggers quickly dumped earth on top.

noun

A machine used for digging

Usage examples:

A mechanical digger

adjective

Excluding or not admitting other things.

Usage examples:

An exclusive focus on success and making money

noun

An item or story published or broadcast by only one source.

Usage examples:

The three media outlets that have broadcast or published exclusives about torture at abu ghraib - c…

adjective

Limited to only one person or group of people

Usage examples:

The pool is for the exclusive use of residents of springfield., an exclusive club

noun

The loose white jacket worn in judo.

Usage examples:

The match begins with competitors standing up on padded mats wearing gis

noun

A private soldier in the us army.

Usage examples:

She went off with a gi during the war

noun

Short for glycaemic index.

Usage examples:

A food is considered to have a low gi if its score is below fifty five

verb

(of an animal, especially a pig) make a low, short guttural sound.

Usage examples:

An enormous pig grunted and shuffled in a sty outside

noun

A low, short guttural sound made by an animal or a person.

Usage examples:

With snorts and grunts the animals were coaxed down the ramp

verb

Issue a low, animal-like noise

adjective

Free from outside control; not subject to another's authority.

Usage examples:

An independent nuclear deterrent

noun

An independent person or body.

Usage examples:

One of the few independents left in the music business

adjective

Not influenced or controlled by other people but free to make your own decisions

Usage examples:

An independent thinker, congress called for the appointment of an independent counsel to investigat…

adjective

Single; separate.

Usage examples:

Individual tiny flowers

noun

A single human being as distinct from a group.

Usage examples:

Boat trips for parties and individuals

noun

A single person or thing, esp. when compared to the group or set to which it belongs

Usage examples:

We will remember him as an individual who always tried to make people happy., every company has its…

noun

A soldier belonging to an infantry regiment.

Usage examples:

As operations unfold, the army has found that protection is needed not just for infantrymen but for…

noun

A male police constable or soldier.

Usage examples:

In the ensuing gun battle three army jawans, one police man and a civilian sustained bullet injury.

adjective

Limited to a particular person or group of people rather than being available to everyone

Usage examples:

We have put strong measures in place to safeguard your nonpublic information., we shall store this …

adjective

Used to single out an individual member of a specified group or class.

Usage examples:

The action seems to discriminate against a particular group of companies

noun

A detail.

Usage examples:

He is wrong in every particular

adjective

Special or single, or this and not any other

Usage examples:

Is there a particular restaurant you’d like to eat at?, what in particular (= special things) did y…

adjective

Belonging to or affecting a particular person rather than anyone else.

Usage examples:

Her personal fortune was recently estimated at £37 million

noun

An advertisement or message in the personal column of a newspaper.

Usage examples:

They found each other through a personals advertisement ehud placed in an indian newspaper.

adjective

Relating or belonging to a single or particular person

Usage examples:

I think you have a personal responsibility to know when to stop., that’s my personal opinion., he w…

noun

An infantry soldier in the french army, especially one who fought in the first world war.

Usage examples:

It coincides with a large number of books and exhibitions about the poilus, as french soldiers in t…

noun

A business owned and controlled independently and not by government, or the system that encourages such businesses

noun

The economic system that is based on the principle of companies being owned privately, rather than by the government

Usage examples:

The relationship between private enterprise and local government has been a basic feature of china'…

verb

Transfer (a business, industry, or service) from public to private ownership and control.

Usage examples:

They were opposed to plans to privatize electricity and water

verb

Past simple and past participle of privatize

Usage examples:

I bought shares in british gas when it was privatized.

noun

A soldier in the ranks; a private.

Usage examples:

Not many officers would condescend to talk with us rankers.

noun

A simple soil consisting of a layer of humus lying directly on an unaltered substrate such as bedrock, glacial drift, or volcanic ash.

adjective

(of vegetation) growing too thickly and coarsely.

Usage examples:

Clumps of rank grass

noun

A soldier responsible for tasks such as building and repairing roads and bridges, laying and clearing mines, etc.

Usage examples:

This is extremely significant when you consider the reduction of the number of sappers in combat en…

noun

A soldier who does jobs such as building bridges, repairing roads, and laying and clearing landmines (= underground bombs)

Usage examples:

Originally, sappers dug "saps", or trenches, to undermine the walls of fortifications., un-trained …

adjective

Better, greater, or otherwise different from what is usual.

Usage examples:

They always made a special effort at christmas

noun

A thing, such as a product or broadcast, that is designed or organized for a particular occasion or purpose.

Usage examples:

Television's election night specials

adjective

Not ordinary or usual

Usage examples:

A special occasion, special attention/treatment, the car has a number of special safety features., …

noun

A soldier of low rank

noun

A private soldier.

Usage examples:

He is hard-drinking, fighting everybody from the neighbourhood gossip to the swaddies.

noun

A british private soldier.

Usage examples:

The tommies, the british soldiers, they would sing to the melody of ‘auld lang syne.’

noun

A private soldier in a cavalry or armoured unit.

Usage examples:

Behind the colonel were his hand picked unit of super troopers.