nondisclosure agreement

noun

: an agreement in which a person (such as an employee) agrees to keep information (such as a trade secret) confidential
… declined to name the victim companies, citing nondisclosure agreements it signed …John Markoff

called also confidentiality agreement, NDA

Examples of nondisclosure agreement in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web None of the board members would speak on the record, citing a nondisclosure agreement meant to keep the talks private. Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2024 In July 2018, Elfman entered into a settlement and nondisclosure agreement with Abadi. Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2023 County and city officials shepherding the project had to sign nondisclosure agreements, so the public wasn’t notified until the day the deal with Safer Human Medicine was signed. USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024 Sasan Saadat, a policy analyst at nonprofit law firm Earthjustice, told me Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has refused to share with the public which projects are being considered for funding, asking anyone who wants to learn details to sign a nondisclosure agreement. Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023 Ensure New Employees Sign NDAs Companies should ensure that employees sign a bond and nondisclosure agreement at the point of hire. Expert Panel®, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024 Much of the data compiled by these analyses and the lessons learned from it remains confidential, with findings often bound up in nondisclosure agreements. Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 2 Feb. 2024 Workers on the project are under strict nondisclosure agreements, and even the casual mention of the project on social media is grounds for dismissal. Chris Morris, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024 Those who publicly criticized the IT system were threatened with legal action or bought off in nondisclosure agreements. Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1959, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of nondisclosure agreement was in 1959

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“Nondisclosure agreement.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nondisclosure%20agreement. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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