privyadjective
uk/ˈprɪv.i/us/ˈprɪv.i/formalbe privy to sth
to be told information that is not told to many people:
I was never privy to conversations between top management.
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Aware
- abreast
- acquainted
- alive
- alive to sth idiom
- au fait
- awake
- awakening
- be no stranger to sth idiom
- familiar
- genned up
- have/keep your finger on the pulse idiom
- informed
- insider
- ivory tower
- onto
- preliterate
- put sb in the picture idiom
- repository
- sad
- sadder but wiser idiom
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privynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈprɪv.i/us/ˈprɪv.i/old usea toilet, especially in a very small building in the garden of a house
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Parts of buildings: the toilet
- bathroom
- bedpan
- bog
- chamber pot
- cistern
- cloakroom
- convenience
- flush
- john
- ladies' room
- latrine
- lav
- lavatory
- litter
- loo
- powder room
- public convenience
- restroom
- shithouse
- smallest room
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