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private detective

US pronunciation
American soundprivate detective
privatedetective
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private - detective -> private detective

Myanmar meaning

အလွတ်စုံထောက်။

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private /'praÇvǝt/ adj

၁။ ကိုယ်ပိုင်။ ပုဂ္ဂလိက။ private property ❍ a private income/private means (ie money not earned as a salary, etc but coming from personal property, investments, etc) ❍ father's own private chair, which no one else is allowed to use ❍ a private letter (ie about personal matters) ❍ ‘Is this a hotel?’‘No, it's a private house. ’
၂။ (က) အတွင်းရေး။ ကိုယ်ရေး။ ကိုယ်တိုင်။ တစ်ဦး ချင်း။ I'm not going to tell you about it; it's private. ❍ That's my private opinion.
(ခ) တစ်သီးပုဂ္ဂလနေလိုသော။ He's a rather private person.
၃။ သီးသန့်။ နှစ်ယောက်တည်း စသည်။ I'd like a private chat with you.
၄။ (က) သီးသန့်။ နှစ်ကိုယ်ကြား။ Let's find a private spot where we can sit and talk.
(ခ) ဆိတ်ငြိမ်၍ အနှောင့်အယှက်ကင်းသော။ Let's go upstairs where we can be a bit more private.
၅။ (က) အစိုးရရာထူးရာခံမရှိသော။ ရိုးရိုးအရပ်သား။ a private citizen ❍ She is acting as a private individual in this matter.
(ခ) အလုပ်တာဝန်အရ မဟုတ်သော။ ကိုယ်ရေးကိစ္စ ဖြစ်သော။ The Queen is making a private visit to Canada. ❍ Some people are fascinated by the private lives of public figures.
၆။ ကိုယ်ပိုင်။ ပုဂ္ဂလိက။ private industry ❍ private education/medicine ❍ a private pension plan. Compare PUBLIC
n
၁။ [C] တပ်သား။ Private (Alan) Smith ❍ He enlisted as a private.
၂။ privates [pl] (infml ) = PRIVATE PARTS
❏ in private [IDM ] သီးသန့်။ နှစ်ကိုယ်ချင်း။ She asked to see him in private.
❏ private company n အစုရှယ်ယာများကို မည်သူ မဆိုဝယ်နိုင်ရန် ထုတ်ရောင်းခြင်းမပြုသော ကုမ္ပဏီ။ ပုဂ္ဂလိက ကုမ္ပဏီ။ Compare PUBLIC COMPANY
❏ private detective (also private investigator, infml private eye ) n အလွတ်စုံထောက်။
❏ private enterprise n [U] ပုဂ္ဂလိကစီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်း။ ကိုယ်ပိုင်စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်း။
❏ privately adv ပုဂ္ဂလိက။ သိုသိုသိပ်သိပ်။ တစ်ဦးချင်း။ a privately-owned firm ❍ The matter was arranged privately. ❍ He supported the official policy in public, but privately he was convinced it would fail.
❏ private member's n (ဗြိတိန်တွင်) ဝန်ကြီးအဖွဲ့တွင် မပါဝင် သော အောက်လွှတ်တော်အမတ်။
❏ private member's bill n (ဗြိတိန်တွင်) အစိုးရအဖွဲ့ တွင်မပါသော အောက်လွှတ်တော်အမတ်က တင်သွင်းသည့်ဥပဒေ။
❏ private parts n [pl] (euph ) လိင်အင်္ဂါများ။ အင်္ဂါဇာတ်။
❏ private patient n (Brit ) အမျိုးသားကျန်းမာရေးစီမံ ကိန်းနှင့်မပတ်သက်သောဆရာဝန်၏ လူနာ။
❏ private practice n
၁။ [U] ကိုယ်ပိုင်သက်မွေးမှု လုပ်ငန်း။ architects/solicitors in private practice.
၂။ (Brit ) (က) [U] အမျိုးသားကျန်းမာရေး စီမံကိန်းနှင့် ကင်းလွတ်သော ဆရာဝန်များ၏ဆေးကုသမှု။ I'm going into private practice when I qualify. (ခ) [C] အထက်ပါ ပုဂ္ဂလိကဆရာဝန် များ၏ ဆေးခန်း။ My NHS dentist has left to form a private practice.
❏ private school n
၁။ (Brit ) ကျောင်းသားမိဘငွေ သက်သက် ဖြင့် လုပ်ငန်းလည်ပတ်သည့်ကျောင်း။
၂။ (US ) အစိုးရ ထောက်ပံ့ငွေ အနည်းအကျဉ်းမျှသာဖြင့် ဖွင့်သည့်ကျောင်း။ Compare PUBLIC SCHOOL
❏ private secretary n ကိုယ်ရေးလက်ထောက်။
❏ the private sector n [sing] ပုဂ္ဂလိကစီးပွားရေး ကဏ္ဍ။ the rapid growth of the private sector ❍ private sector pay rises. Compare PUBLIC SECTOR

More examples
  • A private bathroom/party/plane
  • They found a private spot where they could talk.
  • It’ll be a bit more private in my office.
  • A private joke
  • The minister has been using public funds to finance private dealings.
  • [private life] : What you do in your private life has nothing to do with your boss.
  • Private rail companies
  • A private hospital
  • Private property
  • A private citizen
Synonyms
confidential, personal, hush-hush, classified, secretive, secret, clandestine, concealed, undisclosed, GI, behind the scenes, buttoned up, cloistered, close to one's chest, closet, corporal, discreet, enlisted person, exclusive, first-class, guardsman, gunner, hidden, hushed, independent, individual, infantry, inside, intimate, isolated, nonpublic, not in the public domain, not open, off the record, own, particular, private soldier, privileged, privy, quiet, remote, removed, reserved, restricted, retired, sailor, sapper, secluded, second-class, self-contained, separate, sequestered, sergeant, set apart, soldier, solitary, special, squaddie, tight-lipped, trooper, under one's hat, unofficial, unrevealing, withdrawn
Antonyms
common, forthcoming, known, open, ordinary, public, revealed, sociable, unconcealed
Cross references
confidentialpersonalhush-hushclassifiedsecretivesecretclandestineconcealedundisclosedGIbehind the scenesbuttoned upcloisteredclose to one's chestclosetcorporaldiscreetenlisted personexclusivefirst-classguardsmangunnerhiddenhushedindependentindividualinfantryinside
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