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UNDERCOVER WORK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does undercover work mean?
• UNDERCOVER WORK (noun)
The noun UNDERCOVER WORK has 1 sense:
1. the act of keeping a secret watch for intelligence purposes
Familiarity information: UNDERCOVER WORK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of keeping a secret watch for intelligence purposes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
spying; undercover work
Hypernyms ("undercover work" is a kind of...):
intelligence; intelligence activity; intelligence operation (the operation of gathering information about an enemy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "undercover work"):
espionage (the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets)
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