confidential
adjective/ˌkɒnfɪˈdenʃl/
/ˌkɑːnfɪˈdenʃl/
- meant to be kept secret and not told to or shared with other people
- confidential information/documents
- Your medical records are strictly confidential (= completely secret).
Extra Examples- The affair must be kept confidential.
- The findings are strictly confidential.
- commercially confidential data
- Employees are fully aware that they are not to use confidential information for the purposes of insider dealing.
- The envelope says it is private and confidential.
- There is concern about several confidential documents which have gone missing.
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- (of a way of speaking) showing that what you are saying is private or secret
- He spoke in a confidential tone, his voice low.
- [only before noun] (formal) trusted with private or secret information
- a confidential secretary
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