All English words - page 2907

Meanings of Private-investigator:

noun

A person whose job it is to discover information about people, but who is not a member of a police force

Meanings of Privateer:

noun

An armed ship owned and crewed by private individuals holding a government commission and authorized for use in war, especially in the capture of merchant shipping.

Usage examples:

She was captured by a french 44-gun privateer

Meanings of Privateered:

noun

An armed ship owned and crewed by private individuals holding a government commission and authorized for use in war, especially in the capture of merchant shipping.

Usage examples:

She was captured by a french 44-gun privateer

Meanings of Privateers:

noun

An armed ship owned and crewed by private individuals holding a government commission and authorized for use in war, especially in the capture of merchant shipping.

Usage examples:

She was captured by a french 44-gun privateer

Meanings of Privateersman:

noun

A commander or crew member of a privateer.

Usage examples:

The first chapter describes life at sea among merchant seamen, naval sailors, and privateersmen dur…

Meanings of Privately-owned:

adjective

→  privately held

Usage examples:

A privately owned airline/hospital, privately owned land/property

Meanings of Privates:

noun

The lowest rank in the army, below lance corporal or private first class.

Usage examples:

He enlisted in the army in 1980 and was first assigned as a young private as a supply clerk in germ…

adjective

Belonging to or for the use of one particular person or group of people only.

Usage examples:

All bedrooms have private facilities

plural noun

Someone's sexual organs

Meanings of Privation:

noun

A state in which food and other essentials for well-being are lacking.

Usage examples:

Years of rationing and privation

Meanings of Privations:

noun

A state in which food and other essentials for well-being are lacking.

Usage examples:

Years of rationing and privation

Meanings of Privatism:

noun

A tendency to be concerned with ideas or issues only in so far as they affect one as an individual.

Usage examples:

The communal life embodied in the vine and the branches image presents a strong challenge to contem…

Meanings of Privatistic:

adjective

Concerned with ideas or issues only in so far as they affect one as an individual; self-interested, individualistic.

Meanings of Privative:

adjective

(of an action or state) marked by the absence or loss of some quality or attribute that is normally present.

Usage examples:

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat.

Meanings of Privatize:

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

Meanings of Privatized:

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

Meanings of Privatizing:

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

Meanings of Privet:

noun

A shrub of the olive family, with small white heavily scented flowers and poisonous black berries.

Usage examples:

Swirling robins and starlings competed for the red berries of the barberry and the blue berries of …

Meanings of Priviledge:

noun

A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.

Usage examples:

Education is a right, not a privilege

verb

Grant a privilege or privileges to.

Usage examples:

English inheritance law privileged the eldest son

Meanings of Privilege:

noun

A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.

Usage examples:

Education is a right, not a privilege

verb

Grant a privilege or privileges to.

Usage examples:

English inheritance law privileged the eldest son

Meanings of Privileged:

adjective

Having special rights, advantages, or immunities.

Usage examples:

In the nineteenth century only a privileged few had the vote

verb

Grant a privilege or privileges to.

Usage examples:

English inheritance law privileged the eldest son

Meanings of Privileging:

verb

Grant a privilege or privileges to.

Usage examples:

English inheritance law privileged the eldest son

noun

A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.

Usage examples:

Education is a right, not a privilege

Meanings of Privy:

adjective

Sharing in the knowledge of (something secret or private).

Usage examples:

He was no longer privy to her innermost thoughts

noun

A toilet located in a small shed outside a house or other building.

Usage examples:

It was just as well that the neighbours were so friendly as some of the outside loos - or privies -…

Meanings of Privy-to:

phrase

To be told information that is not told to many people

Usage examples:

I was never privy to conversations between top management., she relied on support from the close ci…

Meanings of Prizable:

adjective

Worthy to be prized; valuable.

Meanings of Prizeable:

adjective

Worthy to be prized; valuable.

Meanings of Prized:

verb

Use force in order to move, move apart, or open (something).

Usage examples:

I tried to prise joe's fingers away from the stick

adjective

Extremely highly valued.

Usage examples:

The bicycle was her most prized possession