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private

[prahy-vit] / ˈpraɪ vɪt /


NOUN
lowest rank of person enlisted in armed service
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Quiñones’ hefty salary of $750,000, which drew attention when she was hired, was meant to be competitive with private utility companies.

From Los Angeles Times

"The pesticide residue tests and CDC biomonitoring data represent the kind of essential research that only the government can provide -- at a scale that no private sector or academic effort could match," he said.

From Science Daily

He also graduated from Stanford and now is president of the private school in Salinas, Calif., that he and his son attended.

From Los Angeles Times

More than a dozen countries took part in the weeks-long search for the vessel, which was eventually located a year later by a private British marine robotics firm, its hull dented and deformed.

From Barron's

“We do not believe in the narrative of a broad-based deterioration in private credit,” Kotowski declared in a research report Wednesday.

From Barron's