private

Naija

Alternative forms

• transport 0.70 274, construction 0.62 103, feeding 0.61 33, business 0.58 1243, insurance 0.57 138, computer 0.56 219, provide 0.56 471, hospitals 0.55 114, facility 0.55 59

Etymology

Borrowed from English private

Pronunciation

• ˈpraɪvət

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 5
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1124
• Frequency in raw corpus: 363
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 852

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Adjective

private: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:338)

   Private jet  — (bbc__83884, __no translation__)

   owner of private school;  — (hildrights__1208, __no translation__)

2. case (frequency:20)

   or e dey foster pikin for private.  — (hildrights__231, __no translation__)

   We don tell dem for private, we don tell dem for public.  — (bbc__8549, __no translation__)

3. cc (frequency:13)

   E be architect and don do work for both public and private sector.  — (bbc__48103, __no translation__)

   E don also do work for public and private sector for Akwa Ibom State.  — (bbc__20559, __no translation__)

4. conj (frequency:7)

   How dis lie-lie and spread of fake info dey for private and public networks?  — (bbc__56477, __no translation__)

   E ask make private and public sectors to come togeda to helep create digital world wey go dey accessible, easy and safe.  — (bbc__43953, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• transport 0.70 274, construction 0.62 103, feeding 0.61 33, business 0.58 1243, insurance 0.57 138, computer 0.56 219, provide 0.56 471, hospitals 0.55 114, facility 0.55 59

Antonyms

• transport 0.70 274, construction 0.62 103, feeding 0.61 33, business 0.58 1243, insurance 0.57 138, computer 0.56 219, provide 0.56 471, hospitals 0.55 114, facility 0.55 59

Translations

• English: no definition