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hidden agenda

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a hidden agenda
a reason for doing something that you are hiding by pretending that you have a different reason. He stressed that the review was to identify staffing needs and there was no hidden agenda to cut jobs.
See also: agenda


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The hidden agenda is that he's not working for the people of California on this issue; he's working to preserve the obscene profits of the private health care insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry.
The hidden agenda behind these words seems to involve erasing the border between Mexico and the United States and raising the level of socialism in both nations.
It is too detailed to get into all the points Dean made about the Bush administration's crimes, hidden agenda, scandals, and worse.
 
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