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   cover up

   • ▪ put something on top of or in front of something in order to protect or conceal it
   • ▪ put on more clothes
   • ▪ try to hide the fact of illegal or illicit activity

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   What does it mean if you cover up a crime?

   • If you cover up something that you do not want people to know about, you hide the truth about it. He suspects there's a conspiracy to cover up the crime. [VERB PARTICLE noun] They knew they had done something terribly wrong and lied to cover it up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] How do we know you're not just covering up for your friend?

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   What does cover up mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! COVER SOMETHING UP definition: 1. to stop people discovering the truth about something bad: 2. an attempt to prevent the public…. Learn more.

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   What is a personal cover-up?

   • A cover-up is an attempt, whether successful or not, to conceal evidence of wrongdoing, error, incompetence, or other embarrassing information. Research has distinguished personal cover-ups (covering up one's own misdeeds) from relational cover-ups (covering up someone else's misdeeds).

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   How does a cover-up work?

   • Once some hint of the hidden matter starts to become known, the cover-up gradually draws all the top leadership, at least, of an organization into complicity in covering up a misdeed or even crime that may have originally been committed by a few of its members acting independently.

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3. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishCOVER SOMETHING UP | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   COVER SOMETHING UP definition: 1. to stop people discovering the truth about something bad: 2. an attempt to prevent the public…. Learn more.

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   The meaning of COVER-UP is a device or stratagem for masking or concealing. How to use cover-up in a sentence.

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   Cover-up definition: any action, stratagem, or other means of concealing or preventing investigation or exposure.. See examples of COVER-UP used in a sentence.

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   A cover-up is an attempt, whether successful or not, to conceal evidence of wrongdoing, error, incompetence, or other embarrassing information. Research has distinguished personal cover-ups (covering up one's own misdeeds) from relational cover-ups (covering up someone else's misdeeds). [1]

7. www.collinsdictionary.com › english › cover-upCOVER UP definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   A cover-up is an attempt to hide a crime or mistake. The general denied there'd been any cover-up. Synonyms: concealment , conspiracy , whitewash [ informal ] , complicity More Synonyms of cover-up

8. dictionary.cambridge.org › english › cover-upCOVER SOMETHING UP definition | Cambridge English Dictionary

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   an attempt to prevent the public from discovering information about a serious crime or mistake: cover-up of Allegations of a cover-up of the effects of pollution have been strongly denied. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

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   an attempt to prevent the public from discovering information about a serious crime or mistake: I'm convinced there was an intentional coverup, that officials haven't told all they know about what happened. (Definition of coverup from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of coverup. coverup.