secret agent
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1. a person secretly employed in espionage for a government (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | agent, |
| definition | : | a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | agent-in-place, |
| definition | : | an operative serving as a penetration into an intelligence target (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | bridge agent, |
| definition | : | an operative who acts as a courier or go-between from a case officer to a secret agent in a hostile area (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | case officer, |
| definition | : | an operative who also serves as an official staffer of an intelligence service (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | codetalker, windtalker, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | foot, |
| definition | : | a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | noc, |
| definition | : | an undercover agent who is given no official cover (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | spy, undercover agent, |
| definition | : | (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | walk-in, |
| definition | : | an operative who initiates his own defection (usually to a hostile country) for political asylum (noun.person) |
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