Usually means: Hidden or secret; not overt.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word covert:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. covert: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. covert: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. covert: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. covert: Collins English Dictionary
  5. covert: Vocabulary.com
  6. Covert, covert: Wordnik
  7. covert: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Covert, covert: Wiktionary
  9. covert: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. covert: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. covert: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Covert, covert: Dictionary.com
  13. covert: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. covert: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Covert (automobile), Covert (disambiguation), Covert (feather), Covert (linguistics), Covert (surname), Covert: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Covert: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. covert: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. covert: Rhymezone
  19. Covert: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. covert: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. covert: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. covert: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. covert: Free Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. covert: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. covert: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. covert: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. COVERT: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. COVERT: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. covert: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Textile (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
adjective:  (now rare) Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.
adjective:  (law, historical) Under coverture.
noun:  A covering.
noun:  A disguise.
noun:  A hiding place.
noun:  Area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.
noun:  (ornithology) A feather that covers the bases of flight feathers.
noun:  A surname.

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