covert: meaning and definitions

Not openly practiced, avowed, engaged in, accumulated, or shown: covert military operations; covert funding for the rebels. See Synonyms at secret.

Covered or covered over; sheltered.

Law Being married and therefore protected by one's husband.

A covering or cover.

A covered place or shelter; hiding place.

Thick underbrush or woodland affording cover for game.

Zoology One of the small feathers covering the bases of the longer feathers of a bird's wings or tail.

A flock of coots. See Synonyms at flock1.