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What is the difference between private and filibuster?

private | filibuster |

As nouns the difference between private and filibuster

is that private is the lowest rank of the army while filibuster is a freebooter, or mercenary soldier.

As a adjective private

is belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.

As a verb filibuster is

to take part in a private military action in a foreign country.

private

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
  • Not in governmental office or employment.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.
  • Not publicly known; not open; secret.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=20 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
  • Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded.
  • Intended only for the use of an individual, group, or organization.
  • Not accessible by the public.
  • Not traded by the public.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private -equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
  • Secretive; reserved.
  • (US, of a room in a medical facility) Not shared with another patient.

    • Synonyms

    * (done in the view of others ): secluded * (intended only for one's own use ): personal * (not accessible by the public ):

    Antonyms

    * public

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The lowest rank of the army.
  • A soldier of the rank of private.
  • (in plural privates) A euphemistic term for the genitals.
  • (obsolete) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) Personal interest; particular business.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Nor must I be unmindful of my private .
  • (obsolete) Privacy; retirement.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Go off; I discard you; let me enjoy my private .
  • (obsolete) One not invested with a public office.
  • * Shakespeare
    • What have kings, that privates have not too?
  • A private lesson.
    • If you want to learn ballet, consider taking privates .

    Synonyms

    * (genitals) bits, private parts

    Derived terms

    * in private * privacy * private language * private parts * private property * private stock * public-private partnership

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    filibuster

    English

    (wikipedia filibuster)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A freebooter, or mercenary soldier.
    • 1890' ''These duties involved prodigious physical and mental exertion, in a climate deadly to Europeans. They also involved much voyaging in waters haunted by '''filibusters''' and buccaneers. But nothing appears to daunt Labat. As for the '''filibusters , he becomes their comrade and personal friend; – he even becomes their chaplain, and does not scruple to make excursions with them.'' — Lafcadio Hearn, '' Two Years in the French West Indies.
  • (US, politics) A delaying tactic, especially the use of long, often irrelevant speeches given in order to delay progress or the making of a decision, especially on the floor of the US Senate.
  • * 2010 , "An own goal on gay rights", The Economist , 14 Oct 2010:
    • Then, last month, before the survey was finished and for reasons still unclear, the Democrats abruptly tried to attach a repeal of the law to the defence appropriations bill, a stratagem the Republicans defeated in a filibuster .
  • (US, politics) A member of a legislative body causing such obstruction.

    • Synonyms

    * (mercenary soldier) see

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take part in a private military action in a foreign country.
  • (US, politics) To use obstructionist tactics in a legislative body.
  • * 1919 , William Roscoe Thayer, Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate Biography , Chapter 11.:
    • But as the case had dragged on interminably, and he believed, and the world believed, and the Canadians themselves knew, that they intended to filibuster and postpone as long as possible, he took the common-sense way to a settlement.