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undercover

[ uhn-der-kuhv-er, uhn-der-kuhv- ]

adjective

  1. working or done out of public sight; secret:

    an undercover investigation.

    Synonyms: , ,

  2. engaged in spying or securing confidential information:

    an undercover agent.



undercover

/ ˌʌ²Ô»åəˈ°ìÊŒ±¹É™ /

adjective

  1. done or acting in secret

    undercover operations

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of undercover1

First recorded in 1850–55; under- + cover
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He sold the photograph to an undercover FBI agent, and was arrested in 2019, prosecutors said.

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Haden Kirkpatrick, a top State Farm executive, said he was fired after being recorded in an undercover video making disparaging remarks about Pacific Palisades homeowners.

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Myanmar's military government has said it's not allowing foreign journalists into the country after the quake, so we went in undercover.

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In November, however, the city conceded in court filings that the vast majority of the officers involved were not truly undercover.

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"The studies let us know what our genetic predilection for IQ is," they told an undercover reporter in 2023.

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