Definition of private

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Private (n.) One not invested with a public office.

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Privateer :: Privateer (n.) An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque..
Subalmoner :: Subaid (v. t.) To aid secretly; to assist in a private manner, or indirectly..
Subsigned :: Subsidy (n.) A grant from the government, from a municipal corporation, or the like, to a private person or company to assist the establishment or support of an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public; a subvention; as, a subsidy to the owners of a line of ocean steamships..
Private :: Private (n.) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
By-lane :: By-lane (n.) A private lane, or one opening out of the usual road..
Private :: Private (n.) A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer.
Concierge :: Concierge (n.) One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female..
Jobbing :: "Jobbing (a.) Using opportunities of public service for private gain; as, a jobbing politician..
Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law..
Relator :: Relator (n.) A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed..
Riot :: Riot (n.) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
Tectly :: Tectly (adv.) Covertly; privately; secretly.
Private :: Private (a.) Having secret or private knowledge; privy.
Privateness :: Privateness (n.) The state of one not invested with public office.
Peculiar :: Peculiar (a.) One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation..
Esoteric :: Esoteric (a.) Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic; -- said of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to exoteric..
Openly :: Openly (adv.) In an open manner; publicly; not in private; without secrecy.
Job :: Job (v. i.) To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
Opertaneous :: Opertaneous (a.) Concealed; private.
Carpetbagger :: Carpetbagger (n.) An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).
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