strict confidence

collocation in English

meaningsofstrictandconfidence

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strict
adjective
uk
/strɪkt/us
/strɪkt/
strongly limiting someone's freedom to behave as they wish, or likely to severely punish someone if they do ...
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confidence
noun
uk
/ˈkɒn.fɪ.dəns/us
/ˈkɑːn.fə.dəns/
the quality of being certain of your abilities or of having trust in people, plans, or ...
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(Definition ofstrictandconfidencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Council secrets and voting results, in particular, were to be held instrictconfidence.
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As has traditionally been the case, local authorities are consultedinstrictconfidenceon legislation which might affect them.
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The communication originally made to me instrictconfidencewas of a tentative nature and has since been the subject of further amplification.
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The references were given in a personal capacity and with the customary assurance that they would be treated instrictconfidence.
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But the meeting was held instrictconfidence.
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Information on individual asylum seekers is treated instrictconfidence.
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We shall be pleased to receive particulars of such properties, which will be treated withstrictconfidence.
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Information supplied by benefit claimants is held instrictconfidence.
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Such information that it does have has been provided by the various agencies instrictconfidence.
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To sum up: we rely not on compulsion but on making examination and treatment readily and conveniently available free of charge and instrictconfidence.
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All the information given will be treated instrictconfidenceand used for statistical purposes only.
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A very large part of the evidence has been tendered instrictconfidence.
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The commission is entitled and empowered to observe astrictconfidencein such figures.
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The situation is that these reports have always been based on the assumption that any information given would be treated instrictconfidence.
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I have never yet known a venereal case, when the situation was properly explained instrictconfidence, that would not accept treatment.
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Such lists are not provided as addresses of benefit claimants along with any other information they supply are held instrictconfidence.
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It should not be instrictconfidence, or for the boards to go behind the backs of members of the societies.
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It is from a voluntary social worker, who writes instrictconfidence.
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Those reports were passed to us instrictconfidence.
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The information received is treated instrictconfidenceby those committees and the licensing authority.
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