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GOVERNMENT AGENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does government agent mean?
• GOVERNMENT AGENT (noun)
The noun GOVERNMENT AGENT has 1 sense:
1. a representative or official of a government or administrative department of a government
Familiarity information: GOVERNMENT AGENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A representative or official of a government or administrative department of a government
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("government 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 "government agent"):
FBI agent; G-man; government man (a special law-enforcement agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation)
revenuer (a government agent responsible for collecting revenue (especially one responsible for stopping bootlegging))
T-man (a special law-enforcement agent of the United States Treasury)
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