secret session
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsecretandsession
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secret
adjective
uk/ˈsiː.krət/us/ˈsiː.krət/
If something is secret, other people are not allowed to know ...
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session
noun
uk/ˈseʃ.ən/us/ˈseʃ.ən/
a formal meeting or series of meetings of an organization such as a parliament or a court ...
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(Definition ofsecretandsessionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There has been some confusion about the term "secretsession".
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The armistice negotiations have continued insecretsession.
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I think much more can be said insecretsessionthan in public.
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I think that would turn on there being asecretsession.
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Then there is the question of what evidence is to be taken in public and what insecretsession.
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A lot could be said for our present discussions being held insecretsessionbut that would be obnoxious.
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When the subject under discussion had been finished he asked for the room to be cleared, and we went intosecretsession.
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There were limits beyond which it could not go, or, if it passed the limits, it was required to go intosecretsession.
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That would not be possible today, but it might be an advantage to have asecretsessionfrom time to time.
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At a time of emergency like this, if defeatism of this kind is to be spoken, should it not be done insecretsession?
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When there is asecretsessionin this country, what is said is known two hours earlier than it would be in an ordinary session.
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I understand that quite a lot of the evidence was given insecretsession, partly to enable witnesses to speak their minds freely.
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Anyhow, it is all hypothetical, because it is alleged to have been asecretsession, and it is a newspaper report and all the rest of it.
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I do not believe that a council needs to go intosecretsessionon every single occasion in a 12-months period, and the same applies to its committees.
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