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undercover
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Word definitions for undercover in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES undercover...agent (= secret ) ▪ an undercover agent COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN agent ▪ The Fedpol had undercover agents there, naturally, but no official presence. ▪ Michael Osborne told investigators that ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 performed or happening in secret. 2 employed or engaged in spying or secret investigation. n. A person who works #Adjective.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Undercover is a six-part BBC television drama series co-produced with BBC America which was first broadcast beginning 3 April 2016. The series is set to premiere in North America on 17 November 2016 on BBC America .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1854, "sheltered," from under + cover (n.). Sense of "operating secretly" attested from 1920.
Usage examples of undercover.
But our Acca felt Bryan might be a target, so we put someone here undercover.
From just before the start of the Bojinka trial until March 1997, Bureau agents used Gregory Scarpa as an undercover informant.
As a DCI, Banks would hardly be involved in undercover work, but he would be in a position to run operations and enjoy the adrenaline high when a big catch finally landed.
What would a peaceful Icelander know about the murkier depths of the unceasing undercover war between the nations?
Those who read newspapers might recall that an undercover state trooper is almost always involved when a Marylander attempts to arrange a contract hit on a loved one.
Police are investigating what connection there might be between the murder and the fact that Ms Rooney was conducting an undercover investigation of the Meadows family and the Eternal Church of the Believer.
Think of the many millions of dollars trickling into the local economy as a result of every corruption probegas for the undercover cars, videotapes for the surveillance cameras, file cabinets for the plea-bargain agreements.
She was going undercover to nail Dusty Muleman, the man she suspected of ordering her boyfriend killed.
The CIA sent more information in, drawing on the work of its Bureau of Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation and Arms Control, a unit that included a then unknown undercover CIA operative named Valerie Plame.
I assume is Drazen Tishchenko, that there was an FBI agent undercover at Betelco.
It was the fare on HBO he was monitoring this morning, the present offering an umpteenth rerun of a film he had seen at least once before, the one about the undercover cop who assumes the identity of a mid-level N.
Miracle Valley beanfield war were satisfied because Abigail Tedesky--journalist, undercover cop, whatever--had finally taken a powder.
Start with the key prosecution witnesses: Ray Takiff, a phenomenally crooked lawyer who went undercover to pass out FBI bribes, and Circuit Judge Roy Gelber, a phenomenally crooked judge who brokered corrupt schemes with other judges.
He continued to serve Marius through the consulships that Marius held to defeat the Germans, and seems to have performed some kind of undercover work for Marius.
He hung up, then contacted undercover narcotics officers working in Jonesboro.