0 hidden or kept secret from the public, or without an audience or crowd watching: --
1 done in a place where things can be kept secret from the public: --
Water charges have become a highly controversial subject and now it seems that important decisions affecting the public are to be reached behind closed doors.
Rationing decisions will, of course, still be made, but now by individual physicians, or behind closed doors by hospital boards (in the case of budget-shortages for example).
Architects continue to transform interiors and make inventive additions, but seldom does their work come into the open - for the most part it happens behind closed doors.
The governors of the city, guild and parish preferred to meet behind closed doors, and the exclusive nature of proceedings helped to institutionalize inequality by restricting access.
As long as environmental topics are discussed behind closed doors, the environment is always losing out.
We often think, for example, that decision-making behind closed doors is inappropriate even if the decisions reached are good ones.
It was felt that educated heretics were best dealt with ' secretely ', behind closed doors, and that their books were best confiscated and quietly destroyed.
It meets once a month behind closed doors.
