Of a corporation or other business, owned by a small number of people, and not having shares of ownership sold via a stock exchange or other public market.

A cost incurred in the production process by the producer; including tax and profit margins that are anticipated.

(idiomatic) A private personal detective, employed to gather information about someone.

(euphemistic) Genitals and female nipples.

Assumption of judgment by individual reason on matters which are not amenable to a lower tribunal than the universal reason of the race.

(colloquial) A private investigator; a private detective.

Any agent hired by a private party for the purpose of investigation or evidence gathering.

(economics) A good that is rivalrous and excludable.

plural of private car

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see private, language.