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undercover

/uhn-der-kuhv-er, uhn-der-kuhv-/US // ˌʌn dərˈkʌv ər, ˈʌn dərˌkʌv- //UK // (ˌʌndəˈkʌvə) //

卧底,卧卧底,卧底工作,卧探

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : working or done out of public sight; secret: an undercover investigation.
    • : engaged in spying or securing confidential information: an undercover agent.

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Examples

  • Additionally, just 23 percent of Republicans said the Capitol rioters weren’t undercover Antifa members.

  • To test the Wage and Hour Division’s competence, the GAO set up a sort of undercover sting.

  • In a recent case involving the Boogaloo Bois, an American right-wing extremist group, undercover FBI agents posed as members of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization, according an indictment issued in November.

  • A multiyear undercover investigation conducted by Global Witness along with extensive reports published by the New York Times have exposed the criminal enterprises that anonymous shell companies enable.

  • By the morning of June 5, an undercover officer had set up surveillance near Brennan’s home.

  • A 19-year-old woman was killed in September after an undercover police watched a drug deal go down in Oklahoma City.

  • “We have undercover security,” says Vincent Zurzolo, the suave man in the blue suit in booth 2630 of New York Comic Con.

  • If you were to have undercover security, Comic Con is the perfect site.

  • Others seemed to be performing bombastic recitals of their grievances as if they were ill-trained actors or undercover agents.

  • Undercover detective Gustav Frank sold Mandelbaum several bolts of stolen silk that had been secretly marked.

  • We're fighting a battle against an unscrupulous enemy, an undercover battle, Steve.

  • He realized almost at once that such an unknown, undercover echelon would be a must.

  • We advanced to the river's bank undercover, and commenced firing on the boat.

  • But secretly he maneuvered the transfer of a five-layers-down undercover man from Madras to Government City.

  • Never said to anyone that I thought Lee was doing undercover work.