0 the quality of being certain of your abilities or of having trust in people, plans, or the future: --
[ + that ] I don't share your confidence that the market will improve next year.
I have every/complete confidence in her. She'll be perfect for the job.
She's completely lacking in confidence.
[ + to infinitive ] He has the confidence to walk into a room of strangers and immediately start a conversation.
1 a secret that you tell someone: --
I should never have taken him into my confidence.
They talked endlessly, exchanging confidences.
2 a feeling of having little doubt about yourself and your abilities, or a feeling of trust in someone or something: --
3 a secret, or a feeling of trust that a secret will be kept: --
4 a feeling that you can trust someone or something to work well or behave as you expect: --
Leitch warns that the insurance industry must raise standards to win back the confidence of investors.
have confidence in sb/sth "I have the utmost confidence in him, and know he will lead this franchise to continued success and growth," West said.
The index fell 3.1% as investors lost confidence in bank shares.
I am not going to betray the confidences of private conversations, but he was.
I often think that the confidences told and exposed to the social worker are more sensitive than the ones exposed to the doctor.
I have heard many doctors reveal confidences, at dinners and so on, which they should never have revealed.
The courts recognise this, and cannot require such confidences to be exposed.
Leaving that issue aside, it is absolutely clear that one requires a provision in the harm test which will deal with foreign confidences.
The problem would be that the category of information called "foreign confidences" is materially different from that category which relates to international relations in general.
He says that foreign confidences must be respected and must remain in this clause.
Such confidences are not reciprocated by the enemy.
