单词 | undercover |
释义 | undercoverWord family (noun) cover coverage covering (adjective) undercover covered ≠ uncovered (verb) cover ≠ uncover (adverb) undercover From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Crime & lawundercoverun‧der‧cov‧er /ˌʌndəˈkʌvə◂ $ -dərˈkʌvər◂/ adjective [only before noun]SCSECRETundercover work is done secretly by the police in order to catch criminals or find out informationundercover investigation an undercover policeman/cop/agent etc undercover detectives► see thesaurus at secret —undercover adverbgoes undercover to catch drug dealers a cop who worked undercover in Germany and Northern Ireland. He Examples from the Corpusundercover• I want to apply to become an undercover agent.• How about undercover angels dressed as Batman and Robin?• People dived aside as undercover cops ambushed a planned post office raid.• 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.• an undercover investigation• Six members of a drug-smuggling gang were arrested after an 18-month undercover police operation.• One final question seems pertinent: What would the response have been had Mr Brettell's offence involved instead an undercover policewoman?• In a rare public statement, the tough undercover soldiers - whose motto is Who Dares Wins - have apologised.• The unit is equipped to deal with a variety of situations, including undercover surveillance.undercover investigation• The two-year undercover investigation which culminated Thursday, involved 130 searches in 36 states. |
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