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CLANDESTINE OPERATION

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Dictionary entry overview: What does clandestine operation mean?

• CLANDESTINE OPERATION (noun)
The noun CLANDESTINE OPERATION has 1 sense:

1. an intelligence operation so planned and executed as to insure concealment

Familiarity information: CLANDESTINE OPERATION used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CLANDESTINE OPERATION (noun)

Sense 1

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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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