private domain

collocation in English

meaningsofprivateanddomain

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private
adjective
uk
/ˈpraɪ.vət/us
/ˈpraɪ.vət/
only for one person or group and not ...
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domain
noun[C]
uk
/dəˈmeɪn/us
/doʊˈmeɪn/
an area of interest or an area over which a person ...
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(Definition ofprivateanddomainfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprivate domain

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The design of the survey as a whole reflects this desire to integrate public andprivatedomaindata.
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Secondly, privatisation of water delivery undermines the legitimacy of the state, since it entails a transfer of a public good to theprivatedomain.
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Propelled by initial commercial success from thisprivatedomain, songs were rapidly "cleaned up" in order to achieve approval for public broadcast and performance.
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The projects shown in this paper are exceptional experiments in the changing relationship between the public and theprivatedomain.
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In these projects the notions of public, collective andprivatedomainare being challenged and stretched in a struggle of repulsion as well as attraction.
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In other words they still do their utmost to maintain the so-called national heritage as aprivatedomain.
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The galleried space is like the stair hall of a grand house where the upper level is aprivatedomain, accessed only by concealed stairs.
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The fact that older people tend to drink in theprivatedomainserves to uphold the popular image that they do not drink.
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With increasing age above 70 years, however, participation contracted and an increasing percentage restricted their productive life to theprivatedomain.
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Acknowledgement of theprivatedomainis sacrosanct in other areas of legislation, in fact heavily policed, but not addressed in discussions of the acoustic environment beyond amplitude limitations.
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Ultimately, in both countries the reliance on local government for religious mediation was bound to decline as religious observance declined and spirituality retreated into theprivatedomain.
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Receiving care is a significant marker of ageing as the recipient struggles with the intrusion of the public into theprivatedomain, with consequences for the intimate self and body.
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It will enter theprivatedomainof city residencies as well as public space, and it does so as a protected entity that, through its branding, promotes its owner.
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This structural secularity places beliefs where they are needed, in other words in theprivatedomain.
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There is no point in creating an asset and leaving it idle, whether it is in the public or theprivatedomain.
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Neither in the public nor in theprivatedomainhave we put pressure on the commission to do anything other than that.
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Enlarging them into the public as against theprivatedomainis a very dangerous development which we shall resist.
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Whether the generation is in the public orprivatedomain, it is the regulations which ensure the safety.
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In theprivatedomainone gets a golden parachute.
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