CLANDESTINE OPERATION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An intelligence operation so planned and executed as to insure concealment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("clandestine operation" 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 "clandestine operation"):

exfiltration operation (a clandestine rescue operation to bring a defector or refugee or an operative and family out of danger)

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