1. Adjective
Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.
2. Adjective
Secret; clandestine.
3. Adjective
Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
4. Adjective
Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
5. Noun
A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party.
6. Noun
A necessary house or place; a backhouse.
7. Noun
a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate
Vocabulary classified under Engineering
8. Noun
a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
Vocabulary classified under Engineering
9. Adjective
(followed by ‘to’) informed about something secret or not generally known; "privy to the details of the conspiracy"
Vocabulary classified under Research methods
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