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.
Settlement between the feuding parties was reached before the privy council six weeks later and both agreed to drop their legal actions.
To protect confidentiality, the interviewers would not be privy to the information regarding the research subjects' precise condition and medical history.
The court cited studies by the tenement department attesting to the superiority of water closets over privy vaults.
The nobility were exempt but could be made to swear the oath if asked by six members of the privy council.
In the latter case the interlocutor is made privy to internal 'private' processes.
Although we cannot be privy to the cognitive contents of animal dreams, we do have some behavioral access to their emotional contents.
The privy council clearly recognized the importance of plays in shaping public opinion.
Although the records have not survived, reports to the privy council of their proceedings give some indication of the number of parishes affected.
