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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 governmentplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GOVERNMENT AGENT (noun)


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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