Usually means: Deceptive action to obscure truth.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word smokescreen:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. smokescreen: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. smokescreen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. smokescreen: Vocabulary.com
  4. Smokescreen, smokescreen: Wordnik
  5. smokescreen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. smokescreen: Wiktionary
  7. smokescreen: Dictionary.com
  8. Smokescreen (Transformers), Smokescreen (disambiguation), Smokescreen (film), Smokescreen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. smokescreen: Rhymezone
  10. smokescreen: FreeDictionary.org
  11. smokescreen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. smokescreen: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. smokescreen: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smokescreen: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smokescreen: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See smokescreens as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle.
noun:  (figuratively) Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract.

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