0 an attempt to prevent the public from discovering information about a serious crime or mistake: --
It is a big cover-up, a closed shop.
There was a massive cover-up of a massive waste of taxpayers' money.
If we confirm it, it becomes unpleasant; if we equivocate, it is the equivalent of a cover-up, with all the row that ensues thereafter.
That confidence depends on people's knowing what is happening and not discovering later and then suspecting that there has been a deliberate cover-up.
Does that state silence amount to a cover-up—a cover-up so powerful that even parts of the media are silenced?
It decided that it would forgo £2 million a year because it was not prepared to continue with the cover-up of the bank's activities.
The fact that they may have got away with cover-up and deceit for nine years is no reason for continuing to evade action.
We want to avoid any suggestion of a cover-up, which would be fundamentally unhealthy for the whole nature of our criminal justice system.