closed-door session

Frequency: 6.06.2 per million words

a formal session, for example of a committee, that is not open to the public

closed-doorADJECTIVE + NOUN

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session

Examples (10)

  • The committee held a closed-door session to discuss the sensitive intelligence report.
  • Parliament will convene a closed-door session to debate the national security bill.
  • The judge called for a closed-door session to hear testimony from the protected witness.
  • During the closed-door session, the board of directors finalized the merger details.
  • Negotiators entered a closed-door session, hoping to break the diplomatic deadlock.
  • All decisions made in a closed-door session must eventually be justified to the public.
  • The agenda for the closed-door session was distributed to members only.
  • They might have to conduct a closed-door session if the information becomes too confidential.
  • The UN Security Council often meets in a closed-door session to handle delicate international crises.
  • Why was the press excluded from what should have been a public hearing, turning it into a closed-door session?