noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blanket of secrecy
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The trial was held under a blanket of secrecy .
an oath of secrecy
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Anyone who joined had to swear an oath of secrecy.
cloaked in secrecy/mystery
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The talks have been cloaked in secrecy.
pledged to secrecy
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Employees were pledged to secrecy .
shrouded in secrecy
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The work is shrouded in secrecy .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
absolute
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Secrecy Rule 2.1 stresses the need for absolute secrecy before an announcement is made.
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In the area of basic national defense the frequent need for absolute secrecy is, of course, self-evident.
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Until radicals grasped the need to conduct their affairs in absolute secrecy , their chances of conspiring effectively were remote.
great
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The first is the need for great secrecy .
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Hierarchy is perceived to operate very strongly and there is a great deal of secrecy surrounding ideas.
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And, with great secrecy , she bought a Christmas tree, and decorated it herself when Susan was asleep.
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This I did in what I thought were circumstances of great secrecy .
official
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Worse still, they are accused of invoking official secrecy to conceal the deception.
total
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Now these men were involved in a long-term operation and total secrecy was essential to its outcome.
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The negotiations were in total secrecy - not even his Cabinet were informed.
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It is organised into small cells and therefore hard to infiltrate, particularly as total secrecy is demanded of its members.
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An operation involving 100 officers from London and Kent was set up in total secrecy .
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We were anxious to preserve total secrecy on the new product to protect our legal rights.
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It was negotiated in almost total secrecy .
■ NOUN
bank
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Properties and bank accounts used for laundering guerrilla funds would be confiscated, with bank secrecy laws lifted in order to facilitate investigation.
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This is so despite falling tax rates in many industrialised countries and bank secrecy legislation designed to curtail their attractions.
law
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Properties and bank accounts used for laundering guerrilla funds would be confiscated, with bank secrecy laws lifted in order to facilitate investigation.
■ VERB
maintain
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They are content to maintain their secrecy and carry on business as normal.
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Washington was concerned about maintaining secrecy and preventing leaks.
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The news can not be suppressed despite the most stringent efforts to maintain secrecy .
surround
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The crisis of visibility concerns the notorious secrecy that surrounds prisons and what goes on inside them.
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Perhaps, no decision caused more trouble for the past council than the secrecy that surrounded the Amazon.com deal.
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Unprecedented secrecy and conflicting information surrounds the launch of the book.
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An indication of the secrecy surrounding Buckley is an episode that took place in September 1977.
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The secrecy that surrounded Emor had been a large part of its charm.
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Hierarchy is perceived to operate very strongly and there is a great deal of secrecy surrounding ideas.
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The secrecy which surrounded the location of a world under survey evaluation was essential in most instances.
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Since its beginnings in the mid-1950s, the secrecy surrounding Sugar Grove has been intense.
swear
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No, surely he would swear her to secrecy - if he really did agree in the end to Miguel's request.
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Amy told no one else except her younger brother Howard, and she swore him to secrecy .
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Ranulf was sworn to secrecy , but there was worse to come.
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She swore him to secrecy and asked him to build the barrel.
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Jett swore me to secrecy , with particular reference to you.
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Lois had sworn her to secrecy .
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John Thaw says he knows, but is sworn to secrecy .
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They swore one another to secrecy .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be veiled in mystery/secrecy etc
swear sb to secrecy/silence
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Amy told no one else except her younger brother Howard, and she swore him to secrecy.
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He swore his family to secrecy and tried to continue living a normal life, making regular stage appearances and several movies.
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Jett swore me to secrecy, with particular reference to you.
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Lois had sworn her to secrecy.
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No, surely he would swear her to secrecy - if he really did agree in the end to Miguel's request.
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She swore him to secrecy and asked him to build the barrel.
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They swore one another to secrecy.
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This time I had taken the precaution of tipping off the organizers in advance and swearing them to silence.
veil of secrecy/deceit/silence etc
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He had apparently recovered from his visit to Johanna, hiding his feelings behind the usual veil of secrecy.
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Justice can not prevail under a veil of secrecy or behind doors that do not open.
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The client has thrown a veil of secrecy over the development, with contractors reluctant to discuss the project.
wall of silence/secrecy
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A wall of silence has now descended over the key players.
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Blount met with a convenient wall of silence.
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But the wall of silence that protected behind the scenes negotiations produced no answers.
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Only Jim Crane, ambitious but a little more human than the other hacks, can break Alice's wall of silence.
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Other cracks in the wall of secrecy have appeared in recent years, as we shall see in Chapter 5.
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Very soon a cold stone wall of silence had tormented them to wounded exasperation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Anna swore me to secrecy on the subject of her family until her book came out.
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Our commanding officer emphasized the need to maintain the utmost secrecy about the operation at all times.
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The gunmen tracked down their target, despite the shroud of secrecy surrounding his whereabouts.
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There is a great deal of secrecy within the organization.
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Why all the secrecy ? You've got nothing to be ashamed of.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A 10-year life span for classified information, unless an agency specifies that the information must have continued secrecy .
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In implementing his plan, Reagan operated in the utmost secrecy .
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It had what all lovers lovers, seek, secrecy , privacy, exclusivity.
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The decision to release the documents reverses a Red Cross policy of secrecy .
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The expansion of citizen participation is greatly threatened today by government secrecy , industrial monopolies, and a closed media.
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They were given uniforms; there was a rudimentary organisation; they practised drilling and, in secrecy , weapons training.
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You must make him understand the need for secrecy .