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# privacy

«privacy» in Mova's school dictionary: **Being away from other people so they cannot see or hear…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (privacy — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Being away from other people so they cannot see or hear you: "the privacy of your bedroom". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privacy/#m1)

2) Keeping your personal information, like your address, passwords or photos, safe from people who should not have it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privacy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In online safety lessons pupils learn to protect their privacy: not sharing their full name, address, school or passwords, and using privacy settings. In everyday life people need privacy in the bathroom or when changing. Phrases: privacy settings, respect someone's privacy, in privacy, invasion of privacy.

### examples

- Please knock to give your sister some privacy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privacy/#x1)
- Check the privacy settings on the game before you play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privacy/#x2)
- Never share your password, so you keep your privacy online. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privacy/#x3)
- Reading someone else's diary does not respect their privacy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privacy/#x4)
- The changing rooms have curtains for privacy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privacy/#x5)
- The app asked for our address, so Dad checked its privacy rules. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privacy/#x6)
- Everyone has a right to privacy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privacy/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: "some privacy", not "a privacy". The adjective is "private". Pronounced "PRIV-a-see" in the UK and "PRY-va-see" in the USA. Safety: keeping your privacy online means not telling strangers where you live or go to school. Privacy does not mean keeping secrets that hurt you; tell a trusted adult about anything that worries you.

### In the corpora

- [Young famous people, like teenage TV actors, deserve even more privacy, because they are still children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/20/)
- [People who did not agree to be filmed have their faces blurred; adults and children have a right to their privacy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/54-reality-tv-what-is-staged-and-what-is-real/21/)
- [Everyone also deserves privacy: their own room, their diary, their messages and their time in the bathroom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy/2/)
- [His dad blocks and reports the account and turns on the privacy settings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/3/)
- [Some fights are about privacy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «privacy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privacy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.