total secrecy

collocation in English

meaningsoftotalandsecrecy

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total
adjective
uk
/ˈtəʊ.təl/us
/ˈtoʊ.t̬əl/
including ...
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secrecy
noun[U]
uk
/ˈsiː.krə.si/us
/ˈsiː.krə.si/
the state of being secret or of keeping ...
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(Definition oftotalandsecrecyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftotal secrecy

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Many decision processes are close to paralysis, but the system can also make fast and radical choices intotalsecrecy.
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Totalsecrecyis obviously something under which intelligence operatives prefer to work.
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The basic reason for that is that those groups operated in virtuallytotalsecrecy.
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This can also be a blessing for the lawbreakers, who see it as a guarantee of almosttotalsecrecyand of impunity.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Those are not strong enough arguments to justifytotalsecrecyabout these awards.
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Certainly, the existence of a service which must operate clandestinely and intotalsecrecyraises peculiar and particular difficulties for any democracy.
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There is this obsession withtotalsecrecyabout every single matter.
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This ludicrous idea that a barrier oftotalsecrecymust always exist between management and labour has existed for too long.
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It then goes away again, and intotalsecrecyfrom the franchise applicant it decides what to do.
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Everybody realises the extreme difficulty in a modern society of the movement of people or the planning of such movements intotalsecrecy.
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They could not plead national security andtotalsecrecyso that the matter could not be sustained.
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I finish on the point oftotalsecrecy.
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In theory, there should betotalsecrecy.
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Intelligence must be gathered almost entirely from people who do their utmost to make their plans intotalsecrecy.
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Everything is being done intotalsecrecy!
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
They will be passed intotalsecrecy.
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The sale of the franchise caught everyone by surprise, as the negotiations culminating in the sale of the franchise were conducted intotalsecrecy.
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These people create factions that congregate intotalsecrecyin places random and unknown.
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Pilots were extensively schooled about their targets, and were forced to memorize every single detail, and rehearsed the operation multiple times on dummy runways intotalsecrecy.
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