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adjective
- 1. not openly acknowledged or displayed: "covert operations against the dictatorship"
noun
- 1. a thicket in which game can hide.
- 2. a feather covering the base of a main flight or tail feather of a bird.
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COVERT definition: 1. hidden or secret: 2. a group of bushes and small trees growing close together in which animals…. Learn more.
The meaning of COVERT is not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled. How to use covert in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Covert.
Covert definition: concealed or disguised; secret. See examples of COVERT used in a sentence.
COVERT meaning: 1. hidden or secret: 2. a group of bushes and small trees growing close together in which animals…. Learn more.
Define covert. covert synonyms, covert pronunciation, covert translation, English dictionary definition of covert. adj. 1. Not openly practiced, avowed, engaged in, accumulated, or shown: covert military operations; covert funding for the rebels.
Covert means secret or hidden. Soldiers might take part in a covert mission to infiltrate an enemy camp — and you might take part in a covert mission to steal your brother's leftover Halloween candy. Covert is the opposite of overt, which means obvious, or in full view. Covert things are hidden, private, or stealthy.
6 days ago · 7 meanings: 1. concealed or secret 2. law → Compare feme covert, discovert 3. a shelter or disguise 4. a thicket or woodland.... Click for more definitions.
Definition of covert adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
• The only waterfowl with both red forehead and habit of constantly flirting white under tail coverts. • Plumage grey-brown, darker on underparts, with white under tail coverts. • He was helped by Athena to drive them out of their coverts, and as they flew up he shot them. Origin covert1 (1200-1300) Old French past participle of covrir; → COVER1.
adjective. uk / ˈkəʊvɜːt / us. Add to word list. done in a secret way: covert police operations. covertly. adverb. (Definition of covert from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of covert. in Chinese (Traditional) 隱蔽的, 隱秘的, 秘密的… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) 隐蔽的, 隐秘的, 秘密的… See more. in Spanish.
