private meeting
Behind closed doors
A private meeting is a gathering restricted to specific participants, excluding outsiders or the general public.
The phrase emphasizes confidentiality or exclusivity: The board held a private meeting to discuss the merger.
Private meetings may involve sensitive topics—personnel matters, negotiations, or personal business—where discretion matters: She requested a private meeting with her supervisor.
- closed-doorExcluding outside parties
- behind closed doorsIn private, unobserved
- confidentialMeant to stay secret
- secretConcealed information
- under wrapsDeliberately kept hidden
hushed · intimate · clandestine · huddle · rendezvous · briefing · sidebar · inner circle · one-on-one · backroom · smoke-filled room · war room · discreet · whispered · exclusive · boardroom · off-the-record · back channel
- confidentialconfidential, secret, classified, undisclosed, hush-hush
- meetingsAGM, attendee, meetings, attendees, general assembly
- one-on-onesfeedback session, coaching session, check-in, performance review, goal setting
- Privateconfidential, secret, personal, hidden, concealed
- affairsaffairs, affair, foreign affairs, current affairs, world affairs
private meetingpublic meeting
Open gathering for discussion
open meeting · town hall · public hearing · open forum · public assembly
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