camera (cameras plural )
1 n-count A camera is a piece of equipment that is used for taking photographs, making films, or producing television pictures.
Her gran lent her a camera for a school trip to Venice and Egypt.
2 If someone or something is on camera, they are being filmed.
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on camera phrase
Just about anything could happen and we'll be there to catch it on camera when it does.
3 If you do something or if something happens off camera, you do it or it happens when not being filmed.
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off camera phrase
They were anything but friendly off-camera, refusing even to take the same lift.
4 If a trial is held in camera, the public and the press are not allowed to attend.
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in camera phrase
This morning's appeal was held in camera...