numero chiuso

Italian

Etymology

Literally, “closed number”.

Noun

numero chiuso m (plural numeri chiusi)

1. numerus clausus
2. (by extension) fixed number of participants allowed; restricted entry
   • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 10, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:

     La valanga di richieste per gli eventi a numero chiuso – da parte di politici, donatori, lontani cugini, amici del tempo delle superiori e personaggi importanti che conoscevamo a stento o che non avevamo mai incontrato – non accennava a rallentare.

     The avalanche of requests for the ticketed events—from elected officials, donors, distant cousins, high school acquaintances, and various important personages we barely knew or hadn't even met—never slowed.

     (literally, “The avalanche of requests for the restricted-entry events – on the part of politicians, donors, distant cousins, high school friends and important personages whom we barely knew or we had never met – did not show signs of slowing down.”)