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单词 confidential
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confidential
(kɒnfɪdeəl )
1. adjective
Information that is confidential is meant to be kept secret or private.
She accused them of leaking confidential information about her private life.
We'll take good care and keep what you've told us strictly confidential, Mr. Lane.
Synonyms: secret, private, intimate, classified  
confidentially adverb [ADVERB with verb]
Any information they give will be treated confidentially.
confidentiality (kɒnfɪdenʃiælɪti ) uncountable noun
...the confidentiality of the client-solicitor relationship. [+ of]
2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
If you talk to someone in a confidential way, you talk to them quietly because what you are saying is secret or private.
All of this is delivered in a warm, confidential tone.
His face suddenly turned solemn, his voice confidential.
confidentially adverb [ADVERB after verb]
Nash hadn't raised his voice, still spoke rather softly, confidentially.
Synonyms: in secret, privately, personally, behind closed doors  
Collocations:
confidential agreement
A local authority spokesman said it 'intends to respect the confidential agreement'.
The Sun
Enterprise, which reports later today, said it could not comment on a confidential agreement.
The Sun
She settled the case out of court in a confidential agreement.
Times, Sunday Times
Lawyers said yesterday they had come to a confidential agreement and 'remain firm friends'.
The Sun
The lawsuit was settled by a confidential agreement in 2000.
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confidential conversation
Later, he kept it to himself because it came as part of a confidential conversation with a source.
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This should include provision for routine confidential conversations with receptionists.
Times,Sunday Times
College administrators, and institutional leaders generally, should be able to have confidential conversations with each other and with faculty with whom they have disagreements.
Christianity Today
Agents have one-to-one confidential conversations with businesses and community organisations and hold local events that allow people to share views and experiences.
Times, Sunday Times
The restaurant may be a bit dimly lit for lunchtime, but comfortable seats and plenty of room between tables make it perfect for confidential conversations.
Times, Sunday Times
confidential data
The tech giant will trawl anonymous confidential data to spot people at risk of kidney disease, blood poisoning and organ failure.
The Sun (2016)
The law-abiding majority will rightly worry about the ease with which the police can access confidential data.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He told me that in his previous departments the regular risk assessments had put possible confidential data loss right at the top of possible perils.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
confidential discussion
This would enable frank and confidential discussion to take place, leading to better decisions.
Times,Sunday Times
The rules will allow for disclosure to any person 'by confidential discussion, to obtain support, advice or assistance' in the case.
Times, Sunday Times
I and the head of the fund are to hold confidential discussions tomorrow.
Times, Sunday Times
This was no longer cabinet but a public meeting and many of the confidential discussions we wanted to hold simply could not take place in such a public forum.
Times,Sunday Times
Diplomats briefed on the confidential discussions say the ministers heard proposals including deeper integration, closer security co-operation and pooled military assets.
Times, Sunday Times
confidential document
Less commonly, a briefing may be accompanied by the distribution of a confidential document.
Times, Sunday Times
He was accused of letting a journalist see a confidential document, but there was never any suggestion that he received any payment from the media.
Times, Sunday Times
A confidential document had been circulated to detectives containing advice which in effect ruled him out as a suspect.
Times, Sunday Times
The former press officer was caught on camera with the pages of a confidential document open to reveal the projected scale of the public sector job losses.
Times, Sunday Times
The company produced a confidential document that explained how its technology was able to identify 'moments when young people need a confidence boost' and then tailor commercials towards them.
Times, Sunday Times
confidential file
It instead should be included in a separate confidential file.
Christianity Today
Confidential files were routinely kept in unlocked cupboards and there was little supervision, leading to an atmosphere of 'complacency and lack of focus'.
Times, Sunday Times
In another incident a lost memory stick containing confidential files was handed in at a police station.
Times, Sunday Times
She was arrested after her supervisor told police that confidential files had been wiped off the group's computer network.
Times, Sunday Times
He has seen (as he never fails to mention) numerous secret and confidential files.
Times, Sunday Times
confidential informant
He said he actually had no idea there was a confidential informant in the case until he heard of it in 2002.
Globe and Mail
No reference to reliability of the confidential informant.
Globe and Mail
Often the warrant will refer to the confidential informant by number; sometimes, they are referred to by their initials.
Globe and Mail
It was revealed he was indirectly involved by hiring her confidential informant to complete the hit.
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Yet at the same time he was assigned to a unit set up to cultivate confidential informants who snitched on high-level criminals and their networks.
The Sun
confidential information
Using confidential information acquired in their work, they play the market and break the law.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
According to transcripts of internet chatroom conversations, traders shared confidential information on client orders.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
What is known, so far, is that a former partner has left after giving confidential information about its clients to a trader who used it.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It would be interesting to know what possible justification the department had for attempting to supply confidential information for which it was not asked.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He is accused of paying for confidential information.
The Sun (2014)
confidential material
The prince claimed that releasing 'intensely private and confidential material' would be a breach of his human rights.
Times, Sunday Times
By way of example, that could involve placing confidential material in an annex which the court could readily identify and order not to be disclosed.
Times, Sunday Times
Procedures for intercepting data since 2010, which allowed for spying on confidential material passed between lawyers and clients, have not met human rights safeguards, it said.
Times, Sunday Times
The court, exercising its inherent power in controlling its own procedures developed the law relating to public interest immunity to decide the scope of disclosure in cases involving confidential material.
Times, Sunday Times
Many companies remain concerned about how much a worker, given full director rights, would be paid and what access to confidential material would be feasible.
Times, Sunday Times
confidential matter
Reporting the decision would not involve the disclosure of intrinsically confidential matter.
Times, Sunday Times
After the mid-1990s very few true confidential matters appeared in it and it was no longer collected after reading.
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It oversees and acts upon confidential matters, including the handling of a filed grievance.
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Directors valued the opportunity to discuss confidential matters with their colleagues and trusted one another with sensitive details that they could not process with fellow administrators on their own campus.
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confidential meeting
A confidential meeting gives the doctors the opportunity to explain, and, freed from the shackles of the insurers, to apologise where an avoidable mistake was made.
Times, Sunday Times
Executives in charge of the six major companies were last week confirmed to be holding confidential meetings at least every two months to discuss market strategy.
Times, Sunday Times
Bank sources said this gave him a 'safe and secure environment' to have 'private telephone conversations or hold confidential meetings with colleagues - many discussing market-sensitive information'.
Times, Sunday Times
It also houses student and learning support services and includes private offices for confidential meetings.
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confidential memo
The confidential memo suggests that any new vessel should be able to operate independently, rather than having to rely on the protection of better-armed warships.
Times, Sunday Times
A confidential memo written by a senior prosecutor described a large backlog of cases and pointed to individual offenders escaping justice despite compelling evidence.
Times, Sunday Times
In a confidential memo ministers have been asked to 'advise on a moratorium on legislation and legislative announcements made but not yet implemented that will entail additional costs for businesses'.
Times, Sunday Times
How many senior government officials could survive the publication of their confidential memos?
Times, Sunday Times
Through unearthed letters, diaries, confidential memos and some ghostly old footage, it explores how our royals have weathered crisis after crisis over the past 100 years.
Times, Sunday Times
confidential nature of
The confidential nature of the process means that homes can sometimes sell for more than the seller anticipated.
Times, Sunday Times
The decision to maintain the confidential nature of the in-camera material had been reviewed, in proceedings in which the applicant had participated, at three levels of jurisdiction.
Times,Sunday Times
Others too viewed the document release as questionable, with several lawyers stressing the confidential nature of the files.
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The theme of the briefing was the need to protect the confidential nature of private communications and to ensure that stored proprietary data remains uncompromised.
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The sacred nature of the files generally and the confidential nature of many of the communications in the files require that they be cared for and used responsibly.
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confidential records
He and four co-defendants are facing charges of illegal wiretapping and obtaining confidential records, among dozens of other allegations.
Times, Sunday Times
In one incident, the confidential records of more than 1.7 million patients were lost.
The Sun
He had a network of contacts with corrupt police officers who obtained confidential records for him.
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The student also has the right to inspect confidential records and challenge the accuracy of information contained in the file.
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This coincided with early criticism that having no editorial policy would drive out good material with spam and promote automated or indiscriminate publication of confidential records.
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confidential report
The confidential report said that the staff's conduct 'may constitute a criminal violation'.
Times, Sunday Times
Copies of its confidential report were circulated last month.
Times, Sunday Times
A confidential report to councillors described the ground's finances as 'perilous'.
Times, Sunday Times
The film revealed a confidential report naming four suspects and suggested that one was a police informant.
Times, Sunday Times
In a confidential report to funders, she describes 64 of them.
Times, Sunday Times
confidential source
It was entitled to make use of information provided by a confidential source.
Times, Sunday Times
Details of the campaign came from a confidential source who was involved in the project.
Times,Sunday Times
The newspaper said that it was refusing to release the tape because it was provided by a confidential source on condition that it was never broadcast.
Times, Sunday Times
His refusal to identify a confidential source led to a landmark court case.
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His job description included liaising with the media, and he regularly acted as a confidential source, although rarely going on the record or appearing on-camera.
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highly confidential
The discs contained highly confidential information on 25 million people.
Times, Sunday Times
Thousands and thousands of constituents have been to see me, often on very difficult and highly confidential issues.
Times, Sunday Times
Use all your work skills to answer an unexpected question and you could get a role to play in a highly confidential new project.
The Sun
Others have expressed alarm about his access to highly confidential material and close involvement in meetings that could shape the region's history.
Times, Sunday Times
Roughly one third of the drives appeared to have information that was highly confidential and should have been erased prior to the drive's resale.
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on a confidential basis
They can also consult the accreditors directly on a confidential basis to see how close they are to meeting the standard.
Times, Sunday Times
Often these are briefings, sometimes a sharing of information on a confidential basis, and at other times opportunities to sound out their views.
ST
They get benchmarked against their competitors and other firms in similar sectors on a confidential basis.
Times, Sunday Times
strictly confidential
The source said: 'The judge made it clear that all evidence should remain strictly confidential.
The Sun (2008)
Your call is strictly confidential.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The pair have since settled out of court, the terms of which are still strictly confidential.
The Sun (2010)
The whole process must be strictly confidential.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Any disclosure should be strictly confidential on a need-to-know basis.
Christianity Today (2000)
Translations:
Chinese: 机密的
Japanese: 内密の
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