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cover-up - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun noun
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noun conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun
Etymologies
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From the verb cover up .
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Administration critics have been quick to denounce what they call a cover-up , but they are missing the point.
BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011
"I don't want to use the term 'cover-up ' but…" An audience member interrupted me: "Why wouldn't you use that term?
Forbes.com: News Andrew Brandt 2011
"We're not going to hide him in positions just to get a short-term cover-up of what is a fundamental issue," he said.
NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011
The latest disclosures are likely to fuel concerns already raised by Tomlinson's family that information was withheld in what they have called a "cover-up ".
Ian Tomlinson evidence was held back from IPCC 2011
For two years the family of Ian Tomlinson, the newspaper seller unlawfully killed by a police officer, have maintained their belief that police withheld crucial information from them in what they have repeatedly described as a cover-up .
Ian Tomlinson: key evidence that police withheld from coroner, IPCC and family 2011
The newspaper Siyasat-e Rooz in Tehran claimed that “when the enemy is expanding the range of its threats and propaganda constantly,” dispatching journalists to the border “can only be described as a cover-up .”
Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010
The latest disclosures are likely to fuel concerns already raised by Tomlinson's family that information was withheld in what they have called a "cover-up ".
The Guardian World News Paul Lewis 2011
Throw in the News of the World phone-hacking scandal and cover-up , plus issues around confidentiality and the provenance of information – the WikiLeaks revelations, and the Telegraph's use of stolen material to reveal the parliamentary expenses scandal – and we have an ethical minefield and a licence for lawyers to argue and make money.
Privacy decisions can't just be left to judges and politicians 2011
The notion that vaccines might cause autism contains all of the elements of a great story: greedy pharmaceutical companies, government cover-up , uncaring doctors, and parents fighting against all odds for their children.
Op-eds on vaccines by Paul Offit, MD 2010
Kristine Kathryn Rusch's "G-Men" (originally reviewed in Sideways in Crime edited by Lou Anders) is equal parts sixties era detective story and political cover-up .
REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #26 edited by Gardner Dozois 2009
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