释义 |
code wordˈcode word noun [countable]  - Each employee has a code word, which the computer's voice recognition chip checks.
- Essentially, each code word is a separate, highly specialized entity.
- Excellence becomes a code word for retreat from equity.
- If it had a name, or a code word, well that sounds like civil servants playing games.
- Occasionally, the code word has to be changed because it has been compromised.
- Previously the code word for this was Trine and before that, during the early 1960s, Dinar.
- Suppose I forget the code word.
1a word or phrase that is given a different meaning to its usual meaning, so that it can be used to communicate something secretly2a word or expression that you use instead of a more direct one when you want to avoid shocking someone SYN euphemismcode word for ‘Lively discussion’ is a code word for ‘argument’. |