concealment

What it means

1. countableuncountableThe practice of keeping secrets.

   act of concealment

   4 more examples

   weapons concealment

   concealment of identity

   The documents were hidden in deliberate concealment.

   He was charged with the concealment of evidence.

2. countableuncountableThe condition of being hidden or concealed.
3. countableuncountablegovernmentprotection from observation or surveillance.

In a sentence

weapons concealment

Where it comes from

1. Old Frenchconcelement“concealment, secrecy”
2. Englishconcealment

From Old French concelement (“concealment, secrecy”). By surface analysis, conceal + -ment.