non-disclosure agreement

English

Alternative forms

• nondisclosure agreement

Noun

non-disclosure agreement (plural non-disclosure agreements)

1. (law, business) A contract that enjoins a party not to disclose certain information.

   Synonym: (initialism) NDA

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Rift Station, Noveria:

     Shepard: What sort of work do you do here?
     Dr. Palon: I can't say. I signed a non-disclosure agreement. If we survive, I'd like to keep my job.
     Dr. Palon: The location is terrible, but the pay is better than any other commercial lab.

   • 2021 January 27, “Network News: Hydro-treated Vegetable Oil performs well in DBC tests”, in RAIL, issue 923, page 11:

     Due to Non-Disclosure Agreements, he was unable to confirm too much regarding the work on the '92s', […] .

Translations

contract not to disclose certain information

• Arabic: اِتِّفَاقِيَّة عَدَم الإِفْصَاح f (ittifāqiyyat ʕadam al-ʔifṣāḥ), اِتِّفَاقِيَّة عَدَم الْإِفْشَاء f (ittifāqiyyat ʕadam al-ʔifšāʔ)
• Catalan: acord de confidencialitat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 保密協議／保密协议 (bǎomì xiéyì)

• Finnish: salassapitosopimus
• French: accord de confidentialité (fr) m, accord de non-divulgation (fr) m
• Georgian: შეთანხმება კონფიდენციალურობაზე (šetanxmeba ḳonpidencialurobaze)
• German: Vertraulichkeitsvereinbarung f, Geheimhaltungsvereinbarung f, Verschwiegenheitsvereinbarung f, all also with -erklärung f and rarely -abrede f
• Hindi: गैर प्रकटीकरण समझौता (gair prakṭīkraṇ samjhautā)
• Italian: accordo di riservatezza m, accordo di confidenzialità m
• Japanese: 非開示合意 (hi kaiji gōi)
• Korean: 비공개 합의 (bigonggae habui)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: umowa poufności f, lojalka (pl) f (colloquial)
• Portuguese: contrato de confidencialidade
• Russian: соглаше́ние о неразглашении n (soglašénije o nerazglašenii), догово́р о неразглашении m (dogovór o nerazglašenii), соглаше́ние о неразглаше́нии n (soglašénije o nerazglašénii), догово́р о неразглаше́нии m (dogovór o nerazglašénii)
• Spanish: acuerdo de confidencialidad m, acuerdo de non divulgación m
• Swedish: sekretessavtal (sv)
• Vietnamese: thỏa thuật bảo mật thông tin, thoả thuận bảo mật thông tin, hợp đồng bảo mật thông tin

See also

• open the kimono