confidence
n
1 a feeling of trust in a person or thing
I have confidence in his abilities
2 belief in one's own abilities; self-assurance
3 trust or a trustful relationship
take me into your confidence
4 something confided or entrusted; secret
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in confidence as a secret
confidence interval
n (Statistics) an interval of values bounded by confidence limits within which the true value of a population parameter is stated to lie with a specified probability
confidence level
n (Statistics) a measure of the reliability of a result. A confidence level of 95 per cent or 0.95 means that there is a probability of at least 95 per cent that the result is reliable
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significance →
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confidence man , trickster
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con man
confidence trick , (U.S. and Canadian) confidence game
n a swindle involving money, goods, etc., in which the victim's trust is won by the swindler, (Informal shortened forms)
con trick (U.S. and Canadian) con game
self-confidence
n confidence in one's own powers, judgment, etc.
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self-confident adj
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self-confidently adv
vote of no confidence
n (Parliament) a vote on a motion put by the Opposition censuring an aspect of the Government's policy; if the motion is carried the Government is obliged to resign, (Also called)
vote of censure