cover names
cover names is the plural of cover name.
Meaning of cover name
Noun
cover name (plural cover names)
- A name used to clandestinely identify somebody or something for confidentiality.
- By the time that he landed in New York early in June, 1915, Sir Edgar Speyer had good cause to be well aware that the Government was strongly opposed to any communication, direct or indirect, with enemy country and to all attempts to evade the censorship of letters and cables, whether by the use of...1922, UK Parliament, Report […] in the Case of Sir Edgar Speyer, London, p. 7
- Synonyms:
- code name
Questions about cover names
- What is cover names the plural of?
- Cover names is the plural of cover name.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cover names (page history and authors); cover name (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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