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Definition of Closed-door
1. Adjective. Not open to the public. "A closed-door meeting"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Closed-door
Literary usage of Closed-door
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Belgium: A Personal Narrative by Brand Whitlock (1919)
"... THE CLOSED DOOR IT was Monday, the second day of April, and, unless some new
complication should arise, some new hitch develop in the scheme of things, ..."
2. The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"... half-raised herself from the sofa, on which she was lying, and said through
the closed door that she would never go anywhere, and asked to be let alone. ..."
3. Commercial Policy in War Time and After: A Study of the Application of by William Smith Culbertson (1919)
"The old colonial system of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was based on
monopoly, exclusion, and the "closed door." Colonies were conceived to exist ..."
4. Treaty Ports in China: (a Study in Diplomacy) by En-Sai Tai (1918)
"Prior to the adoption of the 'Closed-Door' policy in her dealing with aliens,
... The adoption of this 'closed-door' policy was due, in the first place, ..."
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