cover name

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cover name

noun cover names · covername

A name used to clandestinely identify somebody or something for confidentiality. By the time that he landed in New York early in June, 1915, Sir Edgar Speyer had good cause to be well aware that the Government was strongly opposed to any communication, direct or indirect, with enemy country and to all attempts to evade the censorship of letters and cables, whether by the use of
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@misc{cover_name_2026,
  title = {cover name},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cover%20name},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}