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View definitions for privy

privy

adjective as in secret

adjective as in aware

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It says that the Keeper of the Privy Purse, who looks after the royal finances, has been instructed to end the personal allowance and security payments for Prince Andrew.

From BBC

We have been privy to a heavier sorrow in their story that reveals much about what women of Stewart’s era were expected to do and what her refusal to be limited to those restrictions cost her.

From Salon

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

From BBC

The new powers to award taught degrees were conferred by the Privy Council - an advisory body to the King, whose members are known as Privy Counsellors - and approved by the Scottish Parliament.

From BBC

“It is evident that her potential to expose the realities of her personal abuses, being drugged, the #SexTrafficking and #HumanTrafficking she was privy to, akin to the brave actions of Mrs. Cassie Ventura, posed a threat to those profiting from such heinous activities,” he wrote.

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

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