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  • n  a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
  • n  an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
    in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'
  • s  under the level of the ground
    underground caverns
  • s  conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
    underground resistance
  • r  in or into hiding or secret operation
    the organization was driven underground
  • r  beneath the surface of the earth
    water flowing underground

  • Because the listings pages are full of details of gigs by local bands, I am always surprised when peopleforeigners invariablyinform me that there is no underground music .
  • Some 276,000 underground businessesincluding large bus-assembly plantswere legally titled, helping generate $1.
  • It had taken seven months of searching to finally discover one of the underground bunkers that had enabled Hizballah to fire thousands of rockets into northern Israel last summer .
News & Articles

  • Underground explosions close roads in downtown Toledo
    Underground explosions and electrical fires have lead to several road closures in downtown Toledo on Wednesday, according to police.
    June 12, 2013 - Toledo News Now
  • Underground Fire Blocks Roadways in Toledo
    FirstEnergy Corp. says a power surge started a fire in an underground electrical vault that blocked roadways and left smoke rolling out of manhole covers in northwest Ohio's largest city.
    June 12, 2013 - WBNS-10TV Columbus
  • Underground RR fare to be served
    Apparently, there are no records relating what foods fugitive passengers on the Underground Railroad were served during their journey north to freedom in Canada. But they probably consisted of foods familiar to the slaves, such as vegetables, wild greens, hardtack, corn meal and whatever meat...
    June 11, 2013 - The Yuma Sun
Quotes

  • Barack Obama in Georgia Bulletin
    All the work; all the hardship; all the time spent underground,Obama said of the miners in his eulogy, "it was for their families. ...... It was all in the hopes of something better. These miners lived -- as they died -- in pursuit of the...
  • Bob Crow in guardian.co.uk
    RMT leader Bob Crow said: "RMT negotiators spent all afternoon and early evening at Acas putting together a deal which could have settled the dispute, only for London Underground to bring in lawyers at the last minute who pulled the rug from under a...
  • Andrea in Forbes
    It was horribly strong. It was very long and there was a lot of underground noise,said Andrea Riveros, spokeswoman for the Park Hotel in Calama, 60 miles from the epicenter and site of the large Chuquicamata copper mine.

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