code name

code name
code names, code naming, code named
also codename, code-name
1) N-COUNT: usu N n A code name is a name used for someone or something in order to keep their identity secret.

One of their informers was working under the code name Czerny...

The operation was given the code name Dynamo.

2) VERB: usu passive If a military or police operation is code-named something, it is given a name which only the people involved in it know.

[be V-ed n] The operation was code-named Moonlight Sonata...

[V-ed] The French have a two-thousand strong military contingent, code-named Sparrowhawk.


English dictionary. 2008.

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