undercover

adjective
🔊/ˌʌndəˈkʌvə(r)/
🔊/ˌʌndərˈkʌvər/
[usually before noun]
jump to other results
  1. working or done secretly in order to find out information for the police, a government, etc.秘密工作的;暗中做的;私下进行的
    • an undercover agent密探
    • an undercover operation/investigation秘密行动/调查
    • The scandal was revealed after months of undercover work by journalists.经过新闻记者数个月的暗中调查,丑闻被揭露出来。
    Topics Law and justicec1, Crime and punishmentc1
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryUndercover is used with these nouns:
    • agent
    • detective
    • mission
    See full entry

undercover

adverb
🔊/ˌʌndəˈkʌvə(r)/
🔊/ˌʌndərˈkʌvər/
jump to other results
  1. secretly, in order to find out information for the police, a government, etc.秘密工作的;暗中做的;私下进行的
    • The illegal payments were discovered by a journalist working undercover.这些非法付款是一位暗中查访的新闻记者发现的。🔊🔊
    Topics Law and justicec1, Crime and punishmentc1