overt operation

1. 1.

   the collection of intelligence openly without concealment

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Questions about overt operation

What does overt operation mean?

overt operation means "the collection of intelligence openly without concealment".

Is overt operation a common word?

overt operation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.