0 to be told information that is not told to many people:
I was never privy to conversations between top management.
1 a toilet, especially in a very small building in the garden of a house
Only top management was privy to (= knew about) the proposed merger.
The privy council continues to be regarded as the main, corporate, advisory body and extra-conciliar counsel as antipathetical to the ' normal ' process of policy-making.
The subject was first brought up in the privy council's preparations for the session of 1563 (two sessions back).
Nor would it be accessible to anyone who was not privy to, or did not care to identify themselves as, participants in reservation semiotics.
In addition to leaving fines uncollected, the privy council limited the impact of recusancy laws in other ways.
More than this, they implicitly questioned the way the king and privy council were running the war.
Finding no hope of reconciliation, the sub-commissioners buckled and passed the project back to the privy council.
Hacket and his companions evidently intended to replace the ejected privy councillors with their own nominees.
Although the records have not survived, reports to the privy council of their proceedings give some indication of the number of parishes affected.
