A closed-door meeting.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

They can hold closed-door meetings and tell us nothing of the result.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Run, Mike, Run?] Reference

He seemed to relish these closed-door sessions most when the odds were against him.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fearless Commitment] Reference

So he set the closed-door meeting for Congress Hall, next door to Independence Hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Starving States] Reference

They mark the opening salvo of China's closed-door equivalent of a midterm election.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beijing Battle] Reference

Google isn't involved in the current closed-door negotiations, a spokeswoman confirmed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talks Resume on Internet Traffic] Reference

In three days of closed-door deliberations, he waited until the very end to give his speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Clinton Won] Reference

Faqiryar says the rift began when their names leaked out following his closed-door hearing with lawmakers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Graft-Fighting Afghan Prosecutor Forced To Retire] Reference

The stop-and-start showdown was delayed for hours by closed-door haggling over the complicated nature of each bid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Cuban Rangers Bid Is Highest At Auction] Reference

He and other members of the Haft family did not return phone calls seeking comment about details of the closed-door session.    From Wordnik.com.  ['They're Eating Each Other.'] Reference

He sends up endless reports, gives regular closed-door briefings and averages two breakfasts a week with members of Congress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rummy's New Headaches] Reference

Despite the damning findings, the commission debated the Gates question down to the final days of its closed-door deliberations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Damned--But Defiant] Reference

It looked like a measure of how embarrassing a closed-door briefing by President Thabo Mbeki on AIDS the previous week had proved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paranoia... Or Politics?] Reference

After a four-hour, closed-door session, the city council sided with Gates and forced the mayor and the police commission to back down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Score: Gates 1, Bradley 0] Reference

Companies like AT&T, Verizon and Google would like to resolve this issue by creating policies in closed-door meetings with regulators.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timothy Karr: Sen. Al Franken: We Have a Free Speech Problem] Reference

He's hoping a system based on fine print and closed-door trials might soon find itself under the hot lights of a congressional hearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [JUDGING WALL STREET] Reference

Within weeks, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, as chairman of the task force, began holding closed-door meetings with industry officials.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the Minerals Management Service's partnership with industry led to failure] Reference

After hearing of a leak from the closed-door sessions, Holbrooke grabbed Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic and yelled, "Did you do this?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Shipping Out] Reference

Last Wednesday, CIA officials gave a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill about the rising tide of anti-Americanism sweeping the Arab world.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Plan Under Attack] Reference

The House Intelligence Committee has launched a parallel investigation and is expected to hold a closed-door hearing with Hayden on Wednesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paper Trail] Reference

Obama heard that message in a closed-door White House meeting with immigration advocates in March and was taken aback, according to participants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deportation of illegal immigrants increases under Obama administration] Reference

Gingrich told a closed-door meeting of Republicans last week to expect a tough report from Starr, and he hinted at the same in a NEWSWEEK interview.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looking At A Scary Prospect] Reference

Later that day Goss told a closed-door conference committee he couldn't accept the deal, citing instructions from "above my pay grade," sources say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Investigators, Keep Out] Reference

The contents of the report may have been foreshadowed in a recent series of closed-door briefings given to Congress by the Defense Intelligence Agency.    From Wordnik.com.  [IRAQ: A Sweeping, Secret New Report] Reference

Last summer the four-star marine general was invited to a closed-door conference at the Aspen Institute, a plush think tank nestled in the Rocky Mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rebel In The Ranks] Reference

Members of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee held a series of closed-door meetings last week to begin negotiating the outlines of an extension bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush-Era Tax Cuts a Likely Campaign Theme] Reference

During a five-hour closed-door meeting Thursday on Capitol Hill, the rebel senators and their aides hammered out an agreement with White House representatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Change of Heart] Reference

The Colorado Rockies lost their fifth straight game Sunday in Philadelphia, following close on the heels of a rare closed-door team meeting with team manager.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are The Colorado Rockies Suffering An 'Underdog Complex?' VOTE] Reference

Law-enforcement officials believe al-Bayoumi may have had a closed-door meeting with Fahad al Thumairy, a member of the consulate's Islamic and Culture Affairs Section.    From Wordnik.com.  [Failure To Communicate] Reference

The Colorado Rockies lost their fifth straight game Sunday in Philadelphia, following close on the heels of a rare closed-door team meeting with team manager Jim Tracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are The Colorado Rockies Suffering An 'Underdog Complex?' VOTE] Reference

The House version of the bill contains no such language, so a conference committee must resolve the differences, a contentious closed-door process that could take weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Follow The Money] Reference

"Hill is a forceful negotiator, and this deal will be as much his legacy as Bush's," said the participant, who did not want to be quoted recounting a closed-door session.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of a Nuclear Deal] Reference

Even liberals like Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, argued in two heated, closed-door meetings on Aug. 3 that the Democrats might as well cave.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Know What You Did Last Summer] Reference

Congressional interrogators revealed that in Clemens's own closed-door deposition to the committee last week, he initially denied three times ever discussing HGH with McNamee.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pitcher’s Duel] Reference

To the sensitive ears of Kenneth Starr's attorneys, it sounded as though White House lawyers had gotten transcripts of closed-door testimony from the Monica Lewinsky grand jury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Race To The Bottom] Reference

A month later, at the AFL-CIO's annual retreat in Bal Harbour, Fla., unhappy union heads urged Kirkland to retire, only to be rebuffed in a bitter, five-hour closed-door meeting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Union Solidarity Forever? Sorry, Not This Year.] Reference