SECRET AGENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does secret agent mean? 

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

1. a person secretly employed in espionage for a government

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECRET AGENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person secretly employed in espionage for a government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

intelligence agent; intelligence officer; operative; secret agent

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)