Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being secret or hidden; concealment.
- noun The practice or habit of keeping secrets.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being secret or concealed; secret, secretive, or clandestine, manner, method, or conduct; concealment from the observation or knowledge of others: as, to carry on a design in secrecy; to secure secrecy.
- noun Privacy; retirement; seclusion; solitude.
- noun Ability to keep a secret or secrets; fidelity in keeping secrets; strict silence regarding matters intended to be kept secret.
- noun Secretive habits; secretiveness; lack of openness.
- noun A secret; also, secrets collectively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being hidden.
- noun rare That which is concealed; a secret.
- noun Seclusion; privacy; retirement.
- noun The quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret; forbearance of disclosure or discovery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Concealment ; thecondition of beingsecret orhidden - noun The
habit of keeping secrets.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the condition of being concealed or hidden
- noun the trait of keeping things secret
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"Quite why the Bank has to keep its operations so shrouded in secrecy is a mystery to me," said Simon Ward, economist at New Star.
Turning on the bank note printing presses Not a sheep 2009
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This exercise in secrecy is part of a Clinton pattern that grows more worrisome all the time.
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Howard Dean criticized the Bush administration for what he called secrecy in awarding oil contracts in Iraq.
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Accetturo criticized what he called secrecy in the Carmel Performing Arts Foundation, the group formed to raise funds for the center and eventually operate it.
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If they have to place holds in "secrecy" then it certainly sounds like dirty, dirty politics.
Democrats press Republicans to stop secret holds in Senate 2010
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If they have to place holds in "secrecy" then it certainly sounds like dirty, dirty politics.
Democrats press Republicans to stop secret holds in Senate 2010
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Finally, any activity on the government’s part, with no oversight, no acccountability, done in secrecy, is ripe for abuse - such as eavesdropping on conversations by political opponents.
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Cloaked in secrecy was the previous administrations law.
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Institutional spawned secrecy is pretty much never better than its openness.
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Institutional spawned secrecy is pretty much never better than its openness.
bilby commented on the word secrecy
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September 25, 2008