Sentence examples for codeword from inspiring English sources
The word "codeword" is correct in written English
It is typically used to refer to a word or phrase that has a specific meaning within a particular context, often used for secrecy or to convey a hidden message. Example: "The team used the codeword 'Eagle' to signal that the operation was a go."
noun
A string representing an encoded piece of text.
- Bob cannot get any information out of the codeword since he doesn't know what transmission bases Alice used.
As Lizzie Collingham writes in her book, Curry: a Biography, the name korma has become a codeword for anything "mild and creamy", just as vindaloo carries the warning sign: HOT!
It sees "rebalancing" as a provincial codeword for yet more devolution of powers, and believes it has conceded enough already and, at that, without winning friends either in Quebec or in western Canada.
The fuss over Mr Sanger's book has triggered an inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBII), a bout of political mudslinging in America and calls for an international treaty to ban computer warfare altogether.The FBI's gumshoes are trying to find out who disclosed details of Olympic Games, the codeword for the ambitious initiative to develop cyber-weapons such as Stuxnet.
Mr Brown's codeword for reform is "a stronger local and regional dimension" in setting pay for public-sector workers.
These include action in April against the Summit of the Americas gathering in Quebec; a global May Day rally (codeword, M12K01); and, yet again, protests at the next IMF/World Bank annual meetings, this time in Washington in September 2001.What, if anything, does all this signify?
Under Mr Xi, Chinese academics and journalists have been banned from expressing support for "constitutionalism": a term that the party sees as a codeword for Western democratic values.The Central Committee made clear the party had not changed its stance on this.
Still, it's fast-paced, codeword-heavy fun, even if Pearce's idea of characterisation is to give a man a geordie accent "as rich as if he had just ridden down from Newcastle".
After Petraeus resigned, it emerged that Broadwell had been given a set of eight notebooks which contained classified information – including codewords and military strategy – by the general.
There are few senior Palestinian officials and there has only ever been one Palestinian prime minister.From the moment of his accession, King Abdullah has stressed national unity and equality: codewords for fairer treatment of Jordan's Palestinian majority.
But it is riddled with codewords about the "long-term entitlement problem" which, it avers, can only be solved by a "bipartisan commission" acting on well-known options, behind closed doors.
Asked to explain why he used codewords when talking on the many mobile telephones he used, Fuentes claimed he was paranoid about journalists listening in to his conversations.
