toilet(CONTAINER)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Parts of buildings: the toilet
bathroom
bedpan
bog
chamber pot
cistern
cloakroom
flush
flushable
gent
honey bucket
john
ladiesphrase
latrine
litter
potty
potty chair
powder room
public convenience
restroom
women's room

privy | American Dictionary

privy
adjective[ not gradable ]
 fmlus/ˈprɪv·i/
having secret knowledge:
Only top management was privy to (= knew about) the proposed merger.

Examples of privy

privy
The privy council continues to be regarded as the main, corporate, advisory body and extra-conciliar counsel as antipathetical to the ' normal ' process of policy-making.
The subject was first brought up in the privy council's preparations for the session of 1563 (two sessions back).
Nor would it be accessible to anyone who was not privy to, or did not care to identify themselves as, participants in reservation semiotics.
In addition to leaving fines uncollected, the privy council limited the impact of recusancy laws in other ways.
More than this, they implicitly questioned the way the king and privy council were running the war.
Finding no hope of reconciliation, the sub-commissioners buckled and passed the project back to the privy council.
Hacket and his companions evidently intended to replace the ejected privy councillors with their own nominees.
Although the records have not survived, reports to the privy council of their proceedings give some indication of the number of parishes affected.
The privy council clearly recognized the importance of plays in shaping public opinion.
Although we cannot be privy to the cognitive contents of animal dreams, we do have some behavioral access to their emotional contents.
In the latter case the interlocutor is made privy to internal 'private' processes.
The nobility were exempt but could be made to swear the oath if asked by six members of the privy council.
The court cited studies by the tenement department attesting to the superiority of water closets over privy vaults.
To protect confidentiality, the interviewers would not be privy to the information regarding the research subjects' precise condition and medical history.
Settlement between the feuding parties was reached before the privy council six weeks later and both agreed to drop their legal actions.
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