Word Definition

Privy

  1. A necessary house or place; a backhouse.
  2. Secret; clandestine.
  3. 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.
  4. Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
  5. Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.

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