adjective
- Entrusted with private information and the confidence of another.
- usage: "a confidential secretary"
- Of information. ( given in confidence or in secret)
- usage: "this arrangement must be kept confidential"; "their secret communications"
- synonyms: secret
- Denoting confidence or intimacy.
- usage: "a confidential approach"; "in confidential tone of voice"
- The level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret; available only to persons authorized to see documents so classified. .
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