单词 | code-name |
释义 | code-namev. transitive. With complement. To assign or give a code name to (a person or thing). Usually in passive. ΚΠ 1945 Defiance (Ohio) Crescent-News 23 Feb. 4/4 Every Circus has to have its super-colossal, stupendous, breath-taking climax. The Circus code-named theirs ‘Mission Whopper’. 1959 ‘O. Mills’ Stairway to Murder xvi. 162 A military Exercise, code-named Discretion. 1999 Times 11 Sept. 1/1 For 40 years Hola, as she was codenamed, passed on highly sensitive material to her Soviet Union controllers. 2014 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 4 May 6 During a covert operation codenamed Blackjack, the Metropolitan Police placed bugging equipment in a car showroom. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1945 |
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