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Private equity
Private equity is a form of investment in which pooled capital from institutional and wealthy investors is used to buy, restructure, and resell companies, often taking publicly listed firms private.
Private equity fund
A private equity fund is a pooled investment vehicle, run as a limited partnership, that buys illiquid, often controlling stakes in companies over a fixed life of roughly ten years.
Private Eye
Private Eye is a British fortnightly satirical and current affairs magazine founded in 1961, edited by Ian Hislop since 1986, combining satire, cartoons, and investigative journalism; ABC circulation 228,697 in 2026.
Private Eyes (TV series)
Private Eyes is a Canadian crime drama (2016–2021, Global) created by Tim Kilby and Shelley Eriksen, starring Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson as PIs Matt Shade and Angie Everett; 60 episodes, five seasons, ION in the US, spin-off Private Eyes West Coast on The CW in 2026.
Private finance initiative
The private finance initiative (PFI) is a UK procurement model in which private companies build and operate public infrastructure, leasing it back for 25 to 30 years.
Private first class
Private first class (PFC), French Soldat de première classe, is a junior enlisted rank: E-3 (NATO OR-3) in the US Army with chevron-plus-rocker insignia since 1968, but E-2 in the US Marine Corps.
Private forest
Private forest: forest owned by individuals, families, corporations, or private institutions rather than government. Covers FAO definitions, ownership shares (61% of US forest, 81% of Swedish productive forest), owner types, regulation, certification, and development pressures.
Private good
A private good is an economic good that is both excludable and rival in consumption, like wheat or cars, and markets can supply it efficiently.
Private Hospitals
Private hospitals: hospitals controlled by non-government entities, for-profit or not-for-profit, including proprietary, religious, and voluntary hospitals; covers ownership history, funding, regulation, and performance versus public hospitals.
Private household
A private household is a person living alone or a group sharing a dwelling and providing for their own everyday needs, as distinct from institutions like prisons or hospitals.
Private investigator
A private investigator (private detective, PI) gathers and reports information on legal or personal matters for clients. Most U.S. states license the occupation; median pay was $51,220 in May 2025; the field traces to Allan Pinkerton's 1850 agency.
Private island
Private island: an island or island portion owned by individuals, corporations, or conservation groups rather than government. Remains under national sovereignty; shoreline and submerged lands often public; freehold or leasehold tenure; $1.25 billion 2025 market.
Private label
A private label, also called a store brand or own label, is a product made by a third party but sold under a brand owned by the retailer.
Private Lessons (1981 film)
Private Lessons (1981) is an American sex comedy directed by Alan Myerson, starring Sylvia Kristel, Eric Brown, and Howard Hesseman; a blackmail plot around a teenage boy and his housemaid that grossed $26.2 million and spawned Private School.
Private Life (2018 film)
Private Life (2018) is Tamara Jenkins's Netflix comedy-drama starring Kathryn Hahn, Paul Giamatti, and Kayli Carter as a couple pursuing IVF and adoption; Sundance premiere, Metascore 83, 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Private limited company
A private limited company, known in Croatian as društvo s ograničenom odgovornošću, is an incorporated business with limited shareholder liability whose shares cannot be offered to the public.
Private Lives (사생활) (TV series)
Private Lives (사생활) is a 2020 JTBC South Korean crime drama, 16 episodes, starring Seohyun, Go Kyung-pyo, Kim Hyo-jin, and Kim Young-min as con artists battling the conglomerate GK; streamed on Netflix, averaged 1.9% Nielsen ratings.
Private Media Group
Private Media Group, owner of the Private brand founded in Sweden in 1965 as the first full-color hardcore magazine, a NASDAQ-listed adult media company from 1999 to 2011, headquartered in Barcelona, acquired by XVideos parent WGCZ in 2020.
Private military company
A private military company (PMC), or private military and security company (PMSC), is a private business providing military and security services, from guarding and convoy protection to training local forces.
Private Music (album)
private music is the tenth studio album by Sacramento alternative metal band Deftones, released August 22, 2025 on Reprise/Warner. Produced by Nick Raskulinecz, 11 tracks, 42 minutes; debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and earned a Metacritic score of 90.
Private network
A private network, using private IP address space, is a network whose hosts communicate directly and reach outside networks only through gateways, as defined by RFC 1918 in 1996.
Private Network-to-Network Interface
Private Network-to-Network Interface (PNNI) is the ATM Forum protocol suite for routing and signaling between private ATM switches, combining hierarchical link-state routing with UNI-based signaling to establish connections.
Private Parts (1997 film)
Private Parts (1997) is a biographical comedy film directed by Betty Thomas in which Howard Stern plays himself, adapting his 1993 bestselling autobiography; released by Paramount on March 7, 1997, it grossed $41.2 million.
Private Party (professional wrestling)
Private Party, tag team of Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen, formed 2015 at House of Glory; AEW originals since 2019 and AEW World Tag Team Champions October 30, 2024 to January 22, 2025, beating the Young Bucks before losing to The Hurt Syndicate.
Private Peaceful
Private Peaceful is Michael Morpurgo's 2003 children's First World War novel about brothers Tommo and Charlie, told during Tommo's night vigil before Charlie's execution for cowardice; adapted by Simon Reade for stage and as a 2012 Pat O'Connor film.
Private pilot licence
A private pilot license, in the United States a private pilot certificate, allows the holder to fly an aircraft as pilot in command for private, non-commercial flights.
Private PKI
A private PKI is an internal certificate authority system an organization operates to issue and manage X.509 certificates for its own users, devices, and services rather than the public internet.
Private Practice
Private practice is a medical practice wholly owned by physicians rather than a hospital or health system; only 42.2% of US physicians worked in one in 2024.
Private Practice (TV series)
Private Practice is the first Grey's Anatomy spin-off, an ABC medical drama created by Shonda Rhimes (2007-2013, six seasons, 111 episodes) starring Kate Walsh as Addison Montgomery at a Santa Monica wellness clinic.
Private press movement
The private press movement was a tradition of artisanal book production beginning with William Morris's Kelmscott Press in London in 1891, and flourishing through the early twentieth century.