adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
privately held
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a privately held company
publicly/privately owned British English (= belonging to the government or a private organization )
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a privately owned company
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
owned
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Rules were relaxed to allow the first privately owned locomotives unlimited access to the national rail network.
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The dead stock was usually sold in one or other of the privately owned auction marts.
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Fujisankei, itself privately owned and independent, seems the ideal partner.
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We have also been influenced by representations about the position of privately owned companies held on discretionary trusts.
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It will in part become local, privately owned and controlled consultants.
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The news media, themselves privately owned and controlled, convey an image of society which support dominant class interests.
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The new vehicles built as replacements during the 1980s were generally of higher capacity, privately owned and fitted with air brakes.
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It was an interview broadcast by a privately owned company, said to be not unfriendly to the Conservatives.
rented
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Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity.
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Conversely, privately rented dwellings had fallen in proportion from 44.6 percent at the former date to 16 percent in 1975.
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In fact, only about half of young higher education students live in privately rented accommodation.
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They remain very vulnerable in privately rented accommodation as they can often be ignorant of their rights.
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She has two children aged four and two years, and lives in a privately rented unfurnished flat.
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For many in local authority or privately rented accommodation, the sense of frustration and powerlessness can be overwhelming.
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A third of local authority dwellings lack any central heating, as does 64% of unfurnished privately rented accommodation.
■ VERB
admit
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A few businessmen admit privately to admiring his honesty, if not always his fervour.
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But both sides privately admit that older voters will be a major target and states with many retirees will be major battlefields.
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Party candidates privately admit that regular meetings could have jeopardised Labour's chances.
educate
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When this school closed, he was educated privately at home.
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He was educated privately and at Rossall, and went on to study architecture under a tutor at Cambridge.
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He was educated privately in London, and as a young man studied art in Paris.
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He was educated privately at academies in Margate.
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She was privately educated , then went to Edinburgh University and passed part of the preliminary examination in medicine.
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She was educated privately at Lissadell Court, the family estate in county Sligo, Ireland.
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Jabelman was privately educated , and had nurtured his talent as a painter at art school.
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More than two-thirds were privately educated and 400 went to Eton.
express
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In Washington, senior officials privately expressed wariness.
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Indeed, Humphrey had privately expressed grave reservations about the war, which Johnson had ignored.
finance
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In addition to public funding, much health care is financed privately by both companies and individuals.
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If more were financed privately then taxation could be reduced and incentives increased accordingly.
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Headed by Jack Kemp, this largely Republican commission was privately financed .
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We have also been in negotiation to privately finance a port facility in joint venture with Central Government and the Local Authority.
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The channel tunnel is entirely privately financed .
fund
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He also asked for a voluntary moratorium on embryo research that is privately funded .
hold
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S., most timber is grown on privately held land and is sold at auction.
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Most recently, he was chief executive officer of Cibus Pharmaceutical Inc., a privately held drugdelivery company.
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Y., it remains privately held .
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Pursue is a privately held energy company.
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P., his privately held company, of $ 2 billion.
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Barneys does not disclose financial information because it is privately held .
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The privately held company, founded in 1989, is one of the fastest-growing technology startups.
meet
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Moakley met privately with Castro for 90 minutes Wednesday night before a buffet reception in which Castro mingled with the delegation.
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Congressional leaders Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott are meeting privately with him.
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Gephardt spent the weekend in Los Angeles meeting privately with union leaders.
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Chernomyrdin will meet privately with Clinton on Saturday.
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He also met privately with supporters at the home of Enron chief Ken Lay to plot future fund-raising efforts.
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After ethics committee members question the two sides, they will meet privately to decide on a punishment recommendation.
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He and the first lady then met privately with individual family members.
negotiate
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The minimum for Professors is £29,949, with each individual's remuneration being privately negotiated with the university authorities.
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Meanwhile, despite the presence of Alan, Rich Brooks is still trying to negotiate privately with Jody.
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Airlines usually negotiate privately with manufacturers, playing one off against another, of course.
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The repurchases will continue to be made on the New York Stock Exchange or in privately negotiated transactions, it said.
own
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Capital is privately owned by a minority, the capitalist class.
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The villas themselves looked better than before, deserted except for the few that were privately owned and still habitable.
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Although most farmland is privately owned the landscape is publicly consumed.
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S.-led international space station, as well as Department of Defense cargo and privately owned communications and Earth-observing satellites.
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As often as not, land reforms consist of turning large privately owned farms into state-or communally owned cooperatives.
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The district covers more than 7 million acres of publicly and privately owned land.
run
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In contrast the great majority of nursing homes, 83 percent, were privately run .
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Fertility clinics and sperm banks in the United States often are privately run and are subject to few government restrictions.
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The majority of nursing homes are run privately .
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Others are privately run for the state.
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Standards vary enormously in privately run old people's homes and nursing homes.
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It leads to the stimulation of a privately run black economy as its crucial lubricant. 5.
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Of 99 universities serving a population of 36.9m, 48 are privately run .
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If the usual winter epidemic of flu causes overcrowding, arrangements have been made to treat patients in privately run hospitals.
say
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Far from it, what they say for public consumption appears to be at odds with what they are saying privately .
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I can just imagine what he was saying privately about Johnson en route.
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Although Pentagon spokesmen said they saw no need for further strikes soon, officials said privately that more were on the way.
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City officials refuse to talk about the case, but detectives say privately the trail has gone cold.
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Company executives say privately , however, that they would rather the firm remain independent.
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The Zapatistas' public support has dwindled in recent months, but officials say privately that Marcos remains a wild card.
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Many say privately that for whatever reason, too many black parents fail to work the system.
speak
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Instead she said something pompous about having information and wishing to speak privately , before backing out to wait her turn.
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They often spoke privately and, Jim thought, casually.
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When Tom and Dolly returned inside the cottage all chance of speaking privately to Carrie disappeared.
talk
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But to her disappointment there was no chance to talk privately with Luke himself.
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A day or two later, Mrs Maylie talked privately to her son.
think
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Whatever Laura privately thought of these pictures, revolutionary in their way, she insisted they be used.
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He believed that his survey would be of use, but privately thought of it as his escape.
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Sam Fong said he understood none of thern; he thought privately that if they could be deported, so could he.
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Willis deeply respected Richard, whom he privately thought of and sometimes called aloud, the Skipper.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
university-educated/well-educated/privately-educated etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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privately owned land
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Could I speak to you privately ?
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Many villagers privately feared the worst.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Just before the First World War over 90 percent of households rented privately .
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Only around 15 out of 200 work privately at the moment.
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Popular, privately owned century-old hotel, awash with oriental rugs, rich mahogany, walnut panelling and other Victoriana.
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Some deacons and elders have privately told their ministers that they plan to resign in protest if it passes.
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That pessimism is privately echoed inside the administration.
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The privately owned land is a steep, rugged parcel of 171 acres near Highway 92.