IN CONFIDENCE Definition & Meaning

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Also, in strict confidence . Privately, on condition that what is said will not be revealed. For example, The doctor told her in confidence that her mother was terminally ill , or He told us in strict confidence that Gail was pregnant . This idiom was first recorded in 1632. Also see take into one's confidence .

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He has urged anyone who may have information that could locate Mr Lynskey's remains, or those of the remaining Disappeared, "to come forward in confidence to the ICLVR".

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A separate report showed a slight fall in confidence among consumers in their own finances and a much sharper one over the prospects for the wider economy.

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The organisation's director of public health programmes, Dr Mary Ramsay, believes that trend, which started in the decade before Covid, is more likely to be driven by complacency than a drop in confidence in the childhood vaccination programme.

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This is very much part of a worldwide trend with 52 of the 55 countries polled seeing a drop in confidence since 2019.

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He alleged he had also been contacted in confidence by employees of the Countess of Chester Hospital where Letby worked.

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