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closed-door

[ klohzd-dawr, -dohr ]

adjective

  1. held in strict privacy; not open to the press or the public:

    a closed-door strategy meeting of banking executives.



closed-door

adjective

  1. private; barred to members of the public

    a closed-door meeting

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of closed-door1

First recorded in 1930–35
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Example Sentences

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The closed-door meeting will start inside the Sistine Chapel on 7 May and will involve some 135 cardinals from across the world.

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Harrison was speaking at a news conference that took place six days after he and team CEO Rick Welts held a closed-door roundtable discussion with a small, select group of media members.

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Sources have told the BBC that, at the closed-door UN Security Council's Sanctions Committee in Doha late last year, the Taliban admitted that at least half of this equipment is now "unaccounted" for.

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Barred from the closed-door discussion, the 22-year-old was later seen on camera picking up her things from the dais and making a quiet exit.

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While Trump has disavowed any desire for Canada's lumber, energy stockpiles or manufactured products, in February Trudeau reportedly told a closed-door meeting of Canadian business and labour leaders that he saw it differently.

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