secret agent

secret agent

n (Military) a person employed in espionage

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

secret agent - a person secretly employed in espionage for a governmentintelligence agent, intelligence officer, operativeagent - a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizationsagent-in-place - an operative serving as a penetration into an intelligence targetagent provocateur, provocateur - a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal actsbridge agent - an operative who acts as a courier or go-between from a case officer to a secret agent in a hostile areacase officer - an operative who also serves as an official staffer of an intelligence servicecodetalker, 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 IIfoot - a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passengerNOC - an undercover agent who is given no official coverspy, 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 competitorswalk-in - an operative who initiates his own defection (usually to a hostile country) for political asylum

secret agent

noun spy, undercover agent, spook (U.S. & Canad. informal), nark (Brit., Austral., & N.Z. slang), cloak-and-dagger man He was blacklisted as a secret agent.

Translations

特务

secret

(ˈsiːkrit) adjective hidden from, unknown to, or not told to, other people. a secret agreement; He kept his illness secret from everybody. 秘密的 秘密的 noun1. something which is, or must be kept, secret. The date of their marriage is a secret; industrial secrets. 秘密 秘密2. a hidden explanation. I wish I knew the secret of her success. 秘訣 秘诀ˈsecrecy noun the state of being or the act of keeping secret. 秘密狀態，保密 秘密，保密 ˈsecretive (-tiv) adjective inclined to conceal one's activities, thoughts etc. secretive behaviour. 遮遮掩掩的 遮遮掩掩的，偷偷摸摸的 ˈsecretively adverb 遮遮掩掩地 遮遮掩掩地ˈsecretiveness noun 遮掩 遮掩ˈsecretly adverb in such a way that others do not know, see etc. He secretly copied the numbers down in his notebook. 秘密地 秘密地secret agent a spy. 特務 特务secret police a police force whose activities are kept secret and which is concerned mostly with political crimes. 秘密警察 秘密警察in secret secretly. This must all be done in secret. 暗地裡 暗地里keep a secret not to tell (something secret) to anyone else. You can't trust her to keep a secret. 保密 保密