Meanings
- not comparableSomewhat secretive.
Even today few find the concept comical, least of all in the political realm, where the notion of a mighty, semisecretive establishment — business-suited men (and a few women) cloistered in the proverbial smoke-filled room — still obtains.
2008 February 10, Nicholas Confessore, “The Vanishing Establishment”, in New York Times
Origin
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semisecretive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/semisecretive
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