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English: black operations

Portuguese translation: Operações clandestinas







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English term or phrase:black operations
Portuguese translation:Operações clandestinas
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Military / Defense / military jargon
English term or phrase: black operations
Military jargon, but I don't know the exact equivalente used by Brazilian Armed Forces.
Jack of Clubs
Brazil
Operações clandestinas
Explanation:
Black operations ou Black ops.
Uma operação secreta, que não acontece "à luz do dia".
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artg
United States
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Thank you, Ben.
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Summary of answers provided
5 +1operações secretas e dissimuladas..operações de arapongas
airmailrpl
4 +2Operações clandestinasartg


  


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Operações clandestinas

Explanation:
Black operations ou Black ops.
Uma operação secreta, que não acontece "à luz do dia".

artg
United States
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
Note from asker to answerer
Thank you, Ben.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Ben Kohn: ou operações secretas
3 hrs
  -> And thanks again, Ben!

agree Humberto Ribas
20 hrs
  -> Grato, Humberto!
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operações secretas e dissimuladas..operações de arapongas

Explanation:
Black op
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The term black op often refers to a "Black operation," a type of covert operation typically involving activities that are either secret or of questionable ethics and legality. The term itself is often used in political, military, intelligence and business circles. Agents or persons who specialise or are involved in a black operation are typically referred to as a "Black operator" or "black operative."

Origins

Black Ops missions often fall into the deniability category, where no government will claim responsibility for the action, or where responsibility is shifted to another actor in the case of a "false flag" operation. This type of operation is normally used by various secret services to achieve some goals while trying to operate secretly (so the connection between "black operations" and secret agents or even the country of their origin cannot be found). The methods used in black operations are also used in unconventional warfare and includes actions like assassinations, espionage, sabotages, and supporting of resistance movements.

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n 1 abrigo. 2 cova que serve de esconderijo para animais silvestres. 3 pano, tecido para capas. // adj 1 coberto, abrigado. 2 escondido, oculto. 3 secreto, dissimulado. // covertly adv secretamente.

Arapongas - pr
Abrão declinou do convite feito por Escórcio para que o ajudasse na montagem de um esquema de arapongas locais que deveria grampear os telefones de ...
www.guiadosmunicipios.com.br/pr/Arapongas/

airmailrpl
Brazil
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 10

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agree Humberto Ribas
12 hrs
  -> agradeço
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