"code name" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: code names [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} code name (plural code names)
  1. (business, espionage, military) A name used to clandestinely identify somebody or something, either for military or espionage purposes, or for commercial confidentiality. Wikipedia link: code name Categories (topical): Business, Espionage, Military Synonyms: codename, covername, cover name Hypernyms: name Translations (name used to clandestinely identify something): 代號 (Chinese Mandarin), 代号 (dàihào) (Chinese Mandarin), kodenavn (Danish), codenaam (Dutch), kodnomo (Esperanto), salanimi (Finnish), peitenimi (Finnish), koodinimi (Finnish), nom de code [masculine] (French), Codename [masculine] (German), Deckname [masculine] (German), nome in codice [masculine] (Italian), コードネーム (kōdonēmu) (Japanese), 暗号名 (angōmei) (alt: あんごうめい) (Japanese), 秘匿名 (hitokumei) (alt: ひとくめい) (Japanese), kodenavn [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), kodenamn [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), kryptonim [masculine] (Polish), codinome [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese), nome de código [Portugal, masculine] (Portuguese), ко́довое назва́ние (kódovoje nazvánije) [neuter] (Russian), ко́довое наименова́ние (kódovoje naimenovánije) [neuter] (Russian), ко́довое и́мя (kódovoje ímja) [neuter] (Russian), коднэ́йм (kodnɛ́jm) [masculine] (Russian), усло́вное назва́ние (uslóvnoje nazvánije) [neuter] (Russian), nombre en clave [masculine] (Spanish), kodnamn [neuter] (Swedish), mật danh (Vietnamese), tên mã (Vietnamese)

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      "sense": "name used to clandestinely identify something",
      "word": "mật danh"
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      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "name used to clandestinely identify something",
      "word": "tên mã"
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.