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ESPIONAGE AGENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does espionage agent mean?
• ESPIONAGE AGENT (noun)
The noun ESPIONAGE AGENT has 1 sense:
1. someone employed to spy on another country or business competitor
Familiarity information: ESPIONAGE AGENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone employed to spy on another country or business competitor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("espionage agent" is a kind of...):
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)
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