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English term or phrase:
closely
English answer:
behind closed doors/in secret
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mockingbird (X)
Mar 29, 2005 11:29
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i guess the word 'closely' here does not reflect what i want to say? can you give suggestion?
Separately, a member of Commission VI, HM Azwir Dainy Tara also said that he was not present in the meeting due to sickness. “But if I was not sick, I will protest it, why should the further working meeting be held closely, moreover, it is not some sort of special committee’s working meeting that must be conducted in a closed-door meeting,” he said.
Separately, a member of Commission VI, HM Azwir Dainy Tara also said that he was not present in the meeting due to sickness. “But if I was not sick, I will protest it, why should the further working meeting be held closely, moreover, it is not some sort of special committee’s working meeting that must be conducted in a closed-door meeting,” he said.
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| 3 +10 | behind closed doors/in secret |
Rebekah Wils (X)
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| 5 | backroom meeting |
Robert Donahue (X)
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| 4 | in camera |
Mools
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| 3 | in private; secretly; seclude |
Kirill Semenov
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behind closed doors/in secret
??? not sure if this is what you want to say
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hirselina
: I think that is what is meant :-)
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Kirill Semenov
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juvera
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Can Altinbay
: This works the best of the 4 choices so far. The sentence really needs work, by the way.
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yep, it does :-)
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Marian Greenfield
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Arcoiris
: The whole sentence needs reworking, but this sug. is good
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thank you
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Shane London
: It looks like this is what was intended
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Dina Abdo
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conejo
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Michael Schubert
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in private; secretly; seclude
Basing on your context I think it was a sort of secret meeting, without many members attending it.
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in camera
as in behind closed doors?
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Note added at 4 mins (2005-03-29 11:34:12 GMT)
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Just wanted to avoid using \"closed doors\" since it comes later in the sentence....
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Note added at 4 mins (2005-03-29 11:34:12 GMT)
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Just wanted to avoid using \"closed doors\" since it comes later in the sentence....
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Robert Donahue (X)
: Technically this works, but it's moreoften than not used in the legal sense to mean the judge's chambers. As in, "The judge brought the lawyers in camera"
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Yep, that is one definition, but the genl meaning refers to something "in private or secret session; not in public" (Collins)... Discussion makes the world go round ;-)
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backroom meeting
This is the term that you want. "Back room" implies that something less than honest is going/went down.
back·room or back room (b²k“r›m“, -r‹m“) n. 1. A room located at the rear. 2. ***The meeting place used by an inconspicuous controlling group.*** --back·room adj. 1. Of, relating to, or taking place in a backroom: backroom card games. 2. ***Marked by the exercise of inconspicuous control and maneuvering: backroom politics.***
The LDP officials present were then Secretary General Mori, Deputy Secretary General Hiromu Nonaka, policy chief Shizuka Kamei and Upper House leader Masakuni Murakami. Executive Board Chairman Yukihiko Ikeda did not attend. It was not a top government-LDP meeting; it was only a back-room meeting of five political bosses.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?eo2000051...
Only thing missing from 'back room' meeting was the smoke
To many observers of the Nov. 6 meeting of the Spotsylvania County Planning Commission, the hearing on Dogwood Development Group's plan-ned town near Chancellorsville had the aura of a back-room deal. The only thing missing was the smoke.
http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2002/112002/11262002/...
In addition, the environmental and sport-fishing coalition asked the Attorney General’s Office to investigate charges that at least two Board Members have engaged in unlawful tactics to circumvent the public debate on setting new agricultural pollution controls. Ms. Alves was in fact seen in a private, back room meeting with top agri-business lobbyists during the April 24th hearing when pollution controls were being considered.
http://www.cleanfarmscleanwater.org/documents/pr3.15.03.htm
back·room or back room (b²k“r›m“, -r‹m“) n. 1. A room located at the rear. 2. ***The meeting place used by an inconspicuous controlling group.*** --back·room adj. 1. Of, relating to, or taking place in a backroom: backroom card games. 2. ***Marked by the exercise of inconspicuous control and maneuvering: backroom politics.***
The LDP officials present were then Secretary General Mori, Deputy Secretary General Hiromu Nonaka, policy chief Shizuka Kamei and Upper House leader Masakuni Murakami. Executive Board Chairman Yukihiko Ikeda did not attend. It was not a top government-LDP meeting; it was only a back-room meeting of five political bosses.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?eo2000051...
Only thing missing from 'back room' meeting was the smoke
To many observers of the Nov. 6 meeting of the Spotsylvania County Planning Commission, the hearing on Dogwood Development Group's plan-ned town near Chancellorsville had the aura of a back-room deal. The only thing missing was the smoke.
http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2002/112002/11262002/...
In addition, the environmental and sport-fishing coalition asked the Attorney General’s Office to investigate charges that at least two Board Members have engaged in unlawful tactics to circumvent the public debate on setting new agricultural pollution controls. Ms. Alves was in fact seen in a private, back room meeting with top agri-business lobbyists during the April 24th hearing when pollution controls were being considered.
http://www.cleanfarmscleanwater.org/documents/pr3.15.03.htm
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