secret : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in 1975 to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in 1915; wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia
  ASALA; 3rd October Organization; Orly Group.
  
  • ASALA bombing at Orly Airport in Paris in 1983 killed 8 and wounded 55 people

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• adverb in secrecy; not openly
  secretly; on the QT; on the Q.T..
  
  • met secretly to discuss the invasion plans
  • the children secretly went to the movies when they were supposed to be at the library
  • they arranged to meet in secret

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• in a private place; in privacy or secrecy; in a state or place not seen; privately.

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• noun something that is supposed to be secret but is generally known
  
  • their love affair was an open secret

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• noun a person secretly employed in espionage for a government
  intelligence agent; operative; intelligence officer.
  

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• noun (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing
  connivance; tacit consent.
  

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• noun a vote in which each person's choice is secret but the totaled votes are public
  

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• noun a secret method of writing
  cryptograph; cipher; cypher.
  

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• noun the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence overseas
  MI; Military Intelligence Section 6.
  

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• noun a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
  plot; game.
  
  • they concocted a plot to discredit the governor
  • I saw through his little game from the start

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• noun a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition)
  

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• noun the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents
  SS; USSS; United States Secret Service; Secret Service.
  

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• noun a society that conceals its activities from nonmembers
  

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• noun a piece of writing in code or cipher
  cryptograph; cryptogram.
  
• noun act of writing in code or cipher
  steganography; coding; cryptography.
  

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• adjective satellite the highest official level of classification of documents
  

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• noun a secret (method or device or formula) that gives a manufacturer an advantage over the competition
  

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• noun the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents
  SS; USSS; United States Secret Service; Secret Service.
  

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• noun the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents
  SS; USSS; United States Secret Service; Secret Service.
  

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