What does Undercover mean?

Definitions for Undercover
ˌʌn dərˈkʌv ər, ˈʌn dərˌkʌv-un·der·cov·er

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner(a), hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, undergroundadjective

    conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods

    "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance"

Wiktionary

  1. undercovernoun

    A person who works undercover.

  2. undercoveradjective

    Performed or happening in secret.

  3. undercoveradjective

    Employed or engaged in spying or secret investigation.

Wikipedia

  1. undercover

    A cover in foreign, military or police human intelligence or counterintelligence is the ostensible identity and/or role or position in an infiltrated organization assumed by a covert agent during a covert operation.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Undercover in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Undercover in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Undercover in a Sentence

  1. Adriano Enong:

    There was a shootout between undercover police officers and drug peddlers when the men sensed they had sold 500 pesos ($10.80) worth of drugs to policemen.

  2. Gulled Bulhan:

    I was crossing the road when I saw a man with a machete and silver canisters on his chest being chased by what I assume was an undercover police officer -- as they were in civilian clothing.

  3. Jamey Noel:

    The only way to truly understand what was going on in the jail was to implement innocent participants into the system to provide first-hand unbiased intelligence, these brave volunteers helped us identify critical issues within our system that undercover officers would not have been able to find. We couldn’t be more thrilled with the success of this inaugural program.

  4. Esperanza Escobar:

    In visiting the salon I had gone to for three months, I thought I was going in for a cut and dry, i ended up escaping a life in which everyone treated me like a dog, thanks to the help of the undercover activists.

  5. Roderich Kiesewetter:

    If Seehofer goes, he needs to warn the Russians that they need to stop the hybrid falsification of information and the undercover financing of radical right-wing networks.

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