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# undercover

«undercover» in Mova's school dictionary: **working secretly, pretending to be someone else, to find…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (undercover); adverb (undercover)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Undercover means working secretly, pretending to be someone else, to find out information, as police or spies do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undercover/#m1)

2) (adverb) To go undercover is to start working in this secret way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undercover/#m2)

3) (sometimes «under cover») Under cover means under a roof or shelter, out of the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undercover/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and crime shows: undercover police, undercover agents, undercover reporters. It tells the reader a character is hiding who they really are. In everyday life «under cover» (two words) means sheltered: «Keep your bike under cover».

### examples

- The undercover officer pretended to be a builder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undercover/#x1)
- The reporter went undercover to find out the truth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undercover/#x2)
- In the film, the spy worked undercover for years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undercover/#x3)
- An undercover inspector ate at the café. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undercover/#x4)
- Keep the logs under cover so they stay dry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undercover/#x5)
- My cat went undercover under the bed when the hoover came out. (joking) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undercover/#x6)

### note

Usually one word for secret work: «undercover», and two words for shelter: «under cover». It does not mean «under a blanket».

### In the corpora

- [It's not undercover."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «undercover» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undercover/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.