undercover work

1. 1.

   the act of keeping a secret watch for intelligence purposes

   Synonymsspying

   Broaderintelligence

   Narrowerespionage

Questions about undercover work

What does undercover work mean?

undercover work means "the act of keeping a secret watch for intelligence purposes".

What is another word for undercover work?

Close synonyms include spying. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is undercover work a common word?

undercover work 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.