nondisclosure

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UK/ˌnɒndɪsˈkləʊʒə(ɹ)/US, dialectal/ˌnɑndɪsˈkloʊʒɚ/Canada, dialectal/ˌnɒndɪsˈkloʊʒɚ/Australia/ˌnɔndɪsˈkləʉʒə(ɹ)/

noun

An act or policy of not disclosing.

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Meanings

nounnondisclosure (countable and uncountable, plural nondisclosures)

plural nondisclosures · alternative non-disclosure

  1. countableuncountableAn act or policy of not disclosing.
    1 more example

    Recently, one early GPT-4 tester — who was bound by a nondisclosure agreement with OpenAI but gossiped a little anyway — told me that testing GPT-4 had caused the person to have an “existential crisis,” because it revealed how powerful and creative the A.I. was compared with the tester’s own puny brain.

    2023 March 15, Kevin Roose, “GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Germanic*ne
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ís?
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
  5. Proto-Germanic*ainaz
  6. Proto-Germanic*nainaz
  7. Proto-West Germanic*nain
  8. Old Englishnān
  9. Middle Englishnon
  10. Old Englishnān
  11. Old Englishnān-
  12. Middle Englishnon-
  13. Englishnon-
  14. Englishdisclosure
  15. Englishnondisclosure

From non- + disclosure.

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APA

nondisclosure. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nondisclosure

MLA

“nondisclosure.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nondisclosure. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nondisclosure,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nondisclosure.

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