See undercover in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "Performed or happening in secret",
"word": "sub acoperire"
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"sense": "Performed or happening in secret",
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"code": "es",
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "Performed or happening in secret",
"word": "gizli saklı"
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "Performed or happening in secret",
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"code": "tr",
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"roman": "pod prikritie",
"sense": "Employed or engaged in spying or secret investigation",
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"sense": "Employed or engaged in spying or secret investigation",
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"sense": "A person who works undercover",
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"ref": "2000, Robin R. Henke, Phillipp Kaufman, Stephen P. Broughman, Kathryn Chandler, Issues related to estimating the home-schooled population in theUnited States with national household survey data, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2004, Gary Orfield, Dropouts in America: confronting the graduation rate crisis, page 116:",
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