English noun: undercover agent |
1. | undercover agent (person) (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors |
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| Synonyms | spy |
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| Broader (hypernym) | intelligence agent, intelligence officer, operative, secret agent |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | counterspy, double agent, espionage agent, foreign agent, infiltrator, mole, sleeper |
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| Instance hyponym | Margarete Gertrud Zelle, Mata Hari |
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| Domain category | armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine |
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