private collection
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprivateandcollection
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private
adjective
uk/ˈpraɪ.vət/us/ˈpraɪ.vət/
only for one person or group and not ...
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collection
noun
uk/kəˈlek.ʃən/us/kəˈlek.ʃən/
a group of objects of one type that have been collected by one person or in ...
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(Definition ofprivateandcollectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It would be right at home in many aprivatecollectionas well.
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They should show fight and not surrender to the resulting decline of theprivatecollection.
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Are works of art exempt if they remain in aprivatecollection?
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I mention this because this is no longer aprivatecollection.
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Did it go into someone'sprivatecollection, or was it honestly lost?
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He also said that it is just as bad to take a picture from aprivatecollectionas from a public one.
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There are also about 50,000 tons to 75,000 tons fromprivatecollection—from hotels and restaurants and such places in the country.
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Indeed, one of them was most courteous to me and showed me hisprivatecollection.
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Theprivatecollectionis seldom a public loss; it is seldom hidden away.
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The public galleries are closed when the poor man knocks off work, and he has noprivatecollectionof his own.
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He has, moreover, a very fineprivatecollectionof art in his own home which he is able to enjoy at leisure any time he likes, every day.
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We have only to look at the papers almost any day to see that another great house or another greatprivatecollectionis to be sold.
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It has sunk in a quagmire as a result of the inadequacy of funds available—it is aprivatecollection—to keep the roof on and the burglars out.
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It could happen that those separated records might become part of aprivatecollectionand that the association might be even more historical than the association between the different records.
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Even an item that is in a reserve public collection and has been hidden away in a basement ought not to be sold to aprivatecollection.
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He had aprivatecollection.
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Is it not the case that that document is in aprivatecollection, to the great advantage of everyone concerned, and a notable example for his successors?
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As a result, he eventually accumulated the world's largestprivatecollectionof abstract expressionist works.
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At least one six-wheeled coach has been purchased for preservation as part of aprivatecollectionon the mainland but this is not publicly accessible.
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