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privacy
/ˈpɹaɪ.və.si/
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What does privacy mean?
noun
- The state of being secluded from the presence, sight, or knowledge of others.
- Freedom from unwanted or undue disturbance of one's private life.
- Freedom from damaging publicity, public scrutiny, surveillance, and disclosure of personal information, usually by a government or a private organization.
More meanings (4)
noun
- (obsolete) A place of seclusion.
- (obsolete) A relationship between parties seen as being a result of their mutual interest or participation in a given transaction, contract etc.
- (obsolete) Secrecy.
- (obsolete) A private matter.
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IPA pronunciation
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“Of course, my dear, I shan’t expect to intrude upon your personal privacy any more than I did before,” he said gravely.
They had apparently had an eye to extreme privacy, but they had not observed that their position was commanded by Rowland’s stand-point.
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His wife declared she would leave him if she were stripped of the I privacy’ which she felt these trees afforded her.
And here was the spike line, less than a score of feet away—neither privacy for the workman, nor privacy for the pauper.
I hope I may not be disturbed, for to-night I must make my hero say ‘Darling,’ and it needs both privacy and concentration.