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.

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code name — n a name that is used to keep someone s or something s real name a secret >code name v [T] ▪ a crime busting operation code named Jeeves … Dictionary of contemporary English
code name — code ,name noun count a name for someone or something that you use when you want to keep their real name secret … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
Code name — A code name or cryptonym is a word or name used clandestinely to refer to another name or word. Code names are often used for military purposes, or in espionage. They may also be used in industry to protect secret projects and the like from… … Wikipedia
code-name — /kohd naym /, v.t., code named, code naming. to assign a code name to. [1955 60] * * * … Universalium
code name — noun (C) a name that keeps secret someone s real name or a real plan code name verb (T) … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
code name — noun Date: 1919 a designation having a coded and usually secret meaning • code name transitive verb … New Collegiate Dictionary
code-name — transitive verb see code name … New Collegiate Dictionary
code-name — see code name … English dictionary
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