FOREIGN AGENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foreign agent mean? 

• FOREIGN AGENT (noun)
  The noun FOREIGN AGENT has 1 sense:

1. a spy for a foreign country

  Familiarity information: FOREIGN AGENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOREIGN AGENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A spy for a foreign country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("foreign 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)

 Context examples 

Let us suppose, for example, that he had been approached by some foreign agent.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Objection No. 2: We will suppose that he reaches London and sees the foreign agent.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He would naturally have made an appointment with the foreign agent and kept his evening clear.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)