overt

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PUBLIC/NOT PRIVATEovert actions are done publicly, without trying to hide anything 〔行动〕公开的，不加隐瞒的 OPP covert

an overt attempt to silence their political opponents

他们想压制政敌言论的明显企图

Overt race discrimination is illegal.

公然的种族歧视是非法的。

—overtly adverbadv

an overtly political message

带有明显政治色彩的信息

Examples from the Corpus

overt• That is, a global preference for boy babies became overt and unapologetic.• an overt attempt to force landowners to sell• But what of the impact of overt bigotry and intergroup conflict on individual students?• Ellis, according to his successor Beto, had two overriding overt concerns.• Humans are inside the test tube to prevent the experiment from crashing, to divert the trials from overt crisis.• At times they have become an overt issue in industrial disputes.• The Lima standoff seems to signal a return to overt political action by Tupac Amaru.• overt racism• Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V-C granted an order limited to overt use of the information.

Origin overt

(1300-1400) Old French past participle of ovrir “to open”

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