Definition of "secrecy" []

• The quality or condition of being secret or hidden; concealment. (noun)
• The ability or habit of keeping secrets; closeness. (noun)

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• ""Quite why the Bank has to keep its operations so shrouded in secrecy is a mystery to me," said Simon Ward, economist at New Star."
• "This exercise in secrecy is part of a Clinton pattern that grows more worrisome all the time."
• "Howard Dean criticized the Bush administration for what he called secrecy in awarding oil contracts in Iraq."