secret operation

collocation in English

meaningsofsecretandoperation

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secret
adjective
uk
/ˈsiː.krət/us
/ˈsiː.krət/
If something is secret, other people are not allowed to know ...
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operation
noun
uk
/ˌɒp.ərˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɑː.pəˈreɪ.ʃən/
the fact of operating or ...
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(Definition ofsecretandoperationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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For commercial reasons, that has to be asecretoperation.
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One can hardly sustain the contention that it has been asecretoperation.
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It is asecretoperation, but it is certain that it interferes with the market price.
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To claim that it was asecretoperationis frankly rubbish.
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This appears to be a surprisinglysecretoperationfor a body against whose decision there is no appeal.
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They have dealt with 87,000 telephone calls and more than 24,000 written inquiries—hardly a way of conducting asecretoperation.
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Unlike its foreign engagements in the sixties this was nosecretoperation.
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When their identities were made clear, the journalists had exposed thesecretoperationby their presence.
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It was to be a mostsecretoperationknown only to a few.
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Although it was supposed to be asecretoperation, their presence there was soon known to the locals.
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The low status of women andsecretoperationof many of their organizations and societies, have somewhat limited the amount of data on the subject.
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The extensive andsecretoperationwas conducted in the middle of the night and was completed in less than 12 hours.
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His mission is to retrieve government files about a topsecretoperationwhich has been stolen, and he has been instructed to dispose anyone associated with these documents.
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