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closed-door

[ klohzd-dawr, -dohr ]
/ ˈkloʊzdˈdɔr, -ˈdoʊr /

adjective

held in strict privacy; not open to the press or the public: a closed-door strategy meeting of banking executives.

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Origin of closed-door

First recorded in 1930–35

Words nearby closed-door

closed cornice, closed corporation, closed couplet, closed cycle, closed dislocation, closed-door, closed drainage, closed ecosystem, closed-end, closed-end investment company, closed fracture
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British Dictionary definitions for closed-door

closed-door

adjective

private; barred to members of the publica closed-door meeting
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Idioms and Phrases with closed-door

closed door
1

An obstacle or restriction, as in There are no closed doors in the new field of gene therapy. [First half of 1900s]

2

close one's doors. See close down. Also see behind closed doors; close the door.

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