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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 concealmentplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CLANDESTINE OPERATION (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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