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Privy council

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Noun
  1. 1
    A body of advisers to a sovereign, functioning much as a cabinet.
  2. 2
    an advisory council to a ruler (especially to the British Crown) wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English prive (“secret, private, confidential”) + counseil.

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