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单词 clandestine
释义
clandestine
adjective
formal
uk
/klænˈdes.tɪn/us
/klænˈdes.tɪn/
plannedor done insecret,especiallydescribingsomething that is notofficiallyallowed:
（尤指从事不被官方允许的活动）秘密的，暗中的，私下的
Thegroupheldweeklyclandestinemeetingsin achurch.这个团体每星期都在教堂举行秘密集会。
He has been having a clandestineaffairwith hissecretaryfor threeyears.他和秘书私通已有3年了。
Sheundertookseveral clandestineoperationsfor theCIA.她执行过中央情报局的好几次秘密行动。
Synonyms
cloak-and-dagger
hush-hushinformal
secret
surreptitious
undercover
underground
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
kept hidden from other people
  • secretThe spies had a secret meeting.
  • covertThe government was accused of covert military operations.
  • clandestineHe arranged a clandestine meeting between his client and the candidate.
  • confidentialAll the information you give us will be treated as strictly confidential.
  • classifiedThese documents contain classified information.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Secrecy and privacy
  • anonymity
  • anonymization
  • anonymize
  • anonymous
  • anonymously
  • data protection
  • dead men tell no talesidiom
  • dissimulate
  • dissimulation
  • down-low
  • private
  • privately
  • privileged
  • pseudonym
  • pseudonymization
  • undisclosed
  • whitewash
  • whitewashing
  • wrap
  • wrapped (up) in secrecyidiom
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Related word

clandestinely
(Definition ofclandestinefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

clandestine| American Dictionary

clandestine
adjective
us
/klænˈdes·tən/
plannedor done insecret:
a clandestinemeeting

clandestinely

adverbus
/klænˈdes·tən·li/
Thevirusclandestinelyburroweditsway intocomputersacrosstheglobe.
(Definition ofclandestinefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofclandestine

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Officially, ecclesiastical matrimony had thus replaced secular, private, andclandestinemarriage.
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But theclandestinenature of this connection makes it difficult to prove.
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Their works were consequently banned from public exhibition and became symbols of aclandestineartistic discourse.
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Theclandestinenature of political corruption, for example, is a case in point.
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The end of theirclandestineexistence and the exercise of ' going public ' helped them to re-evaluate their objectives and functional dynamics.
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But the contraceptive trade was aclandestinetrade and birth control was not publicly discussed in the early years of this century.
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It would appear that a good many border-dwellers became involved in thisclandestinetrade.
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This is partly a story, then, about theclandestinebuild-ups behind the lines.
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The author emphasizes that these should by no means be necessarily characterized as 'clandestine'.
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The bulk of urban party activity migrated to the unions, but activists also worked within a range ofclandestineorganisations.
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Notable among these was gambling, whose flexibility and familiarity accommodated many of the constraints ofclandestineprison activities.
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The economic bustle provided a veneer of economic prosperity that hid the continuing depredations of military attempts to eradicateclandestineresistance.
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Excluding thoseclandestinemarriages of which evidence was given.
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They're small, representative mobilizations of what is normally an after-hours,clandestinescene.
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They have wanted war, they have been waging it upon us for three years, but in aclandestine, hypocritical, roundabout manner.
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