Undercover work (original) (raw)
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of keeping a secret watch for intelligence purposes
Synonyms:
spying; undercover work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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)