Usually means: Secretly, confidentially, away from public.
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  1. sub-rosa, sub rosa: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sub rosa: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sub rosa: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sub rosa: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sub-rosa, sub rosa: Vocabulary.com
  6. sub-rosa, sub rosa: Wordnik
  7. sub rosa: Wiktionary
  8. sub rosa: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. sub rosa: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. sub-rosa, sub rosa: Dictionary.com
  11. sub rosa: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Sub Rosa (NCIS), Sub Rosa (album), Sub Rosa (band), Sub Rosa (company), Sub Rosa (disambiguation), Sub Rosa (label), Sub Rosa (novel), Sub Rosa, Sub rosa: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. sub-rosa, sub rosa: Rhymezone
  14. Sub Rosa: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. sub-rosa, sub rosa: Free Dictionary
  16. sub-rosa, sub rosa: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Sub Rosa: The Word Detective
  18. sub-rosa, sub rosa: Dictionary/thesaurus
  19. Sub rosa: World Wide Words

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sub rosa: Global Glossary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sub rosa: A Word A Day
  2. sub rosa: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sub rosa: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (sub rosa)

adverb:  Covertly or in secret; confidentially, privately, secretly.
adjective:  Carried out confidentially or secretly.
adjective:  Not formally stated; implicit, tacit, unspoken.
noun:  (US, law, slang) Covert surveillance video used as evidence against applicants for workers' compensation to show they are not in fact (seriously) injured.

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