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Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own: in camera

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Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:

in camera

Short/Brief Note
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Solution

 in camera: in private/secretly

As the accused was only 14 years old, the trial was held in camera.

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