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    SECRET AGENT

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A person secretly employed in espionage for a governmentplay

    Synonyms:

    intelligence agent; intelligence officer; operative; secret agent

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("secret agent" is a kind of...):

    agent (a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "secret agent"):

    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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