confidential information

1. 1.

   an indication of potential opportunity

   “he got a tip on the stock market”

   “a good lead for a job”

   Synonymstipleadsteerwindhint

   Broaderguidance

Questions about confidential information

What does confidential information mean?

confidential information means "an indication of potential opportunity".

What is another word for confidential information?

Close synonyms include tip, lead, steer, wind, hint. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is confidential information a common word?

confidential information is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.