secret agent

secret agent

n

(Military) a person employed in espionage

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

secret agent - a person secretly employed in espionage for a government intelligence agent, intelligence officer, operative agent - a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations agent-in-place - an operative serving as a penetration into an intelligence target agent provocateur, provocateur - a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts bridge agent - an operative who acts as a courier or go-between from a case officer to a secret agent in a hostile area case officer - an operative who also serves as an official staffer of an intelligence service codetalker, windtalker - a secret agent who was one of the Navajos who devised and used a code based on their native language; the code was unbroken by the Japanese during World War II foot - a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger NOC - an undercover agent who is given no official cover spy, undercover agent - (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors walk-in - an operative who initiates his own defection (usually to a hostile country) for political asylum

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secret agent

noun spy, undercover agent, spook (U.S. & Canad. informal), nark (Brit., Austral., & N.Z. slang), cloak-and-dagger man He was blacklisted as a secret agent.

Translations

secret agent

n → Geheimagent(in) m(f)

secret agent n → agente m segreto