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under cover

under cover prepositional phrase: protected by a covering or shelter.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Protected by a covering or shelter.
    • When it started to rain we got under cover.
    • As these [diesel] trains have to be shedded under cover at night, four additional outdoor standage roads are being provided for stabling of electric rolling stock after inspection in the shed.1956 October, “Recent Changes on the Tyneside Electrified Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 662

Questions about under cover

What does under cover mean?
Under cover means protected by a covering or shelter.
What part of speech is under cover?
Under cover is a prepositional phrase.

Words near under cover in the dictionary

  1. under center
  2. under clothes
  3. under construction
  4. under control
  5. under correction
  6. under cover
  7. under cover of darkness
  8. under cover of night
  9. under erasure
  10. under fire
  11. under glass

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