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View definitions for privy

privy

adjective as in secret

adjective as in aware

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He insists that because citizens pay taxes, they should be privy to the health of their leaders.

From BBC

She's done things, been places and had a life with her husband to which we feel privy despite decades apart.

From Salon

"There's things like internal investigations, internal statements. I've never read them. There are documents that I've never been privy to and they need to be produced now," she says.

From BBC

But the illegal weed market has become privy to this, and some are illegally using packaging with the label to sell black market products, said California Department of Tax and Fee Administration Director Nick Maduros.

In that article he had accused the king’s top advisory body, the privy council, of helping engineer the 2014 military coup which deposed an administration led by his sister Yingluck.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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