in confidence
Secretly, as a secret
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Main Entry: ↑confide
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in confidence phrase
if you tell someone something in confidence, you tell them something secret or private and you trust them not to tell anyone else
in strict/the strictest confidence:
Any information given during the interview will be treated in the strictest confidence.
Thesaurus: secret, secretive and in secretsynonym
Main entry: confidence
Useful english dictionary. 2012.