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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
undercover
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
undercover...agent (=secret)
▪ an undercoveragent
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
agent
▪ The Fedpol had undercover agents there, naturally, but no official presence.
▪ Michael Osborne told investigators that drugs were so prevalent at Cyberzone that undercover agents needed help from fellow deputies working off-duty.
▪ In the guise of travelling labourers they were sent to Wokingham Fair as undercover agents.
▪ I want to apply to become an undercover agent.
▪ Normally, however, he was resident in London, operating as an undercover agent there.
▪ The informant showed gun crates marked with the names of Norinco and Poly Technologies to an undercover agent.
▪ They had undercover agents everywhere in the hotel.
cop
▪ But it's great fun watching these little monsters give undercover cop Arnie the run-around.
▪ People dived aside as undercover cops ambushed a post office raid.
investigation
▪ The two-year undercover investigation which culminated Thursday, involved 130 searches in 36 states.
officer
▪ In fact, it was a police exercise and was solely staffed by two undercover officers calling themselves Gary and Aggi.
▪ Aron stated she was willing to pay for services, and she and the undercover officer discussed money.
▪ Annalisa Sellen was one of the undercover officers responsible for the operation.
operation
▪ There was also widespread disquiet over the nature of the undercover operation which had trapped him.
▪ Postal inspectors changed the name of the business to Island Male, and ran it as an undercover operation.
▪ Dolezal decides to play detective in a one man undercover operation, wandering naively into deathtrap after deathtrap.
▪ They died almost five years ago in the undercover operation near Omagh, Co Tyrone.
▪ According to law-enforcement sources, it was part of Operation Corea, an undercover operation designed to track the flow of heroin.
▪ Police would be allowed to use undercover operations and to tap telephones in the course of anti-Mafia investigations.
operative
▪ An on-site undercover operative can offer an employer protection without the presence of an armed guard.
▪ Some companies routinely bring in undercover operatives every six to 12 months, Kimmons said.
work
▪ But the covert groupings have had their undercover work rumbled by loyalists.
▪ You have people who do undercover work, I believe, like mingle with students or go to political meetings.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an undercover investigation
▪ He was arrested after trying to sell guns to an undercover FBI agent.
▪ People dived aside as undercover cops ambushed a planned post office raid.
▪ Six members of a drug-smuggling gang were arrested after an 18-month undercover police operation.
▪ The unit is equipped to deal with a variety of situations, including undercover surveillance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ How about undercover angels dressed as Batman and Robin?
▪ However, the two men he approached to arrange the murder were undercover detectives and Taylor and his daughter were arrested.
▪ I want to apply to become an undercover agent.
▪ In a rare public statement, the tough undercover soldiers - whose motto is Who Dares Wins - have apologised.
▪ One final question seems pertinent: What would the response have been had Mr Brettell's offence involved instead an undercover policewoman?
▪ Then I heard the slap-slap-slap of rubber-soled feet coming across the yard and did what any ice-cool undercover dude would do.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
undercover

1854, "sheltered," from under + cover (n.). Sense of "operating secretly" attested from 1920.

Wiktionary
undercover

a. 1 performed or happening in secret. 2 employed or engaged in spying or secret investigation. n. A person who works #Adjective.

WordNet
undercover

adj. 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" [syn: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner(a), hugger-mugger, hush-hush, on the quiet(p), secret, surreptitious, underground]

Wikipedia
Undercover (The Rolling Stones album)

Undercover is the 17th British and 19th American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1983. After their preceding studio album, Tattoo You (1981), which was mostly patched together from a selection of outtakes, Undercover was their first release of all new recordings in the 1980s. With the advent of the MTV generation, the band attempted to re-invent themselves for a new era.

Undercover (band)

Undercover is an American Christian punk band based in Fullerton, California, formed in the early 1980s by Joey "Ojo" Taylor and James "Gym" Nicholson. Through more than two decades and a few lineup changes, the band released eight studio albums and two live albums, and were pioneers in what would later be called Alternative music in the Christian world. The band was known for the spiritual growth shown in their music as their career progressed; CCM Magazine once called them "the band that grew up in public."

Undercover (disambiguation)

Being undercover is the practice of disguising one's identity for the purposes of a police investigation or espionage.

Undercover may also refer to:

Undercover (Gemma Hayes song)

Undercover is the second single taken from the second album The Roads Don't Love You by Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes, released in 2006 on the Source Records label.

Undercover (dance group)

Undercover were a dance music group from the UK, who had two Top 10 hits in 1992. The vocals on all the group's songs were sung by John Matthews, The band were formed in 1991, and are still active today.

Undercover (Paul Taylor album)

Undercover is an album by Paul Taylor which was released on N2K Records in 2000. The album reached number three on the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart.

Undercover (1943 film)

Undercover is a major 1943 war film produced by Ealing Studios in London, originally titled Chetnik. It was filmed in Wales and released on 27 July 1943. The subject was the Yugoslav guerrilla movement in German-occupied Yugoslavia loosely based on the Draza Mihailovich resistance movement. The movie was produced by Sir Michael Balcon and directed by Sergei Nolbandov. It starred John Clements as Milosh Petrovitch, Mary Morris as Anna Petrovitch, his wife, Stephen Murray as Stephan Petrovitch, his brother, Michael Wilding as Constantine, and Stanley Baker as Petar. The movie was re-released in the United States in 1944 by Columbia Pictures under the title Underground Guerrillas. The Ealing movie was similar to the 20th Century Fox wartime film Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas (1943) made in the U.S. The plot revolves around a resistance movement that emerges in Yugoslavia after the German invasion in 1941. The guerrillas are able to blow up trains, engage in sabotage, and to battle German troops. In the final scene, the guerrillas are shown going into the Serbian mountains to continue their resistance struggle until the German forces are driven out of the country. The movie was released on DVD on 25 January 2010 by Optimum Home Entertainment in the UK.

Undercover (Ministry album)

Undercover is an album of cover versions and remixes by Ministry & Co-Conspirators released on December 6, 2010 by Al Jourgensen's record label 13th Planet Records. The album includes remixes and re-recorded versions of previously released songs such as " N.W.O.", " Stigmata", and " Jesus Built My Hotrod", among others. Every Day Is Halloween: The Anthology, which was released October 5th by Cleopatra Records, features almost all of the same songs with the exception of their cover of Black Sabbath's " Paranoid", which is only available on this album.

Undercover (1983 film)

Undercover is a 1983 Australian film.

It was based on an original idea by Miranda Downes, who wanted to make a film based on Australian underwear manufacturer Fred Burley. David Stevens was attracted to the movie because it gave him the chance to make a movie that was fun and glamorous, which said something about Australia.

The investors insisted on an American actor in the cast. Dennis Quaid was originally meant to play the American lead but his involvement was objected to by Actors Equity. Equity did not like Stevens' second choice for the role but approved his third, Michael Pare.

Undercover (Tying Tiffany album)

Undercover is the debut studio album of the Italian musician Tying Tiffany.

Undercover (2013 TV series)

Undercover is a Philippine television drama broadcast on TV5. It will start on July 1, 2013.

Undercover (2015 TV series)

Undercover is a British television comedy drama series about a bumbling cop working undercover in an Armenian crime family.

Undercover (2016 TV series)

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.

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.