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English
Etymology
From Old French concelement (“concealment, secrecy”). By surface analysis, conceal + -ment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənˈsiːlmənt/
- Hyphenation: con‧ceal‧ment
Noun
concealment (countable and uncountable, plural concealments)
- The practice of keeping secrets.
- The condition of being hidden or concealed.
- (military) protection from observation or surveillance.
Translations
The practice of keeping secrets
- Bulgarian: укривателство n (ukrivatelstvo)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 保密 (zh) (bǎomì)
- Czech: zatajování (cs) m, zamlčení m
- French: dissimulation (fr) f
- Italian: occultamento (it) m, dissimulazione (it) f
- Japanese: 秘匿 (ja) (ひとく, hitoku), 隠匿 (ja) (いんとく, intoku), 隠蔽 (ja) (いんぺい, inpei), 潜伏 (ja) (せんぷく, senpuku)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hemmelighold n, fortielse (no) m
- Occitan: celament, amagament, occultacion, dissimulacion (oc)
- Portuguese: ocultação f
- Spanish: ocultamiento (es) m
- Tatar: астыртынлык (tt) (astırtınlıq)
- Telugu: దాపరికము (dāparikamu)
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the condition of being hidden or concealed
(military) protection from observation or surveillance