单词 | undercover agent |
释义 | undercover agent (once / 28969 pages) n WORD FAMILY undercover agent: undercover agents USAGE EXAMPLESHis chat partner was, in fact, an undercover agent. Wall Street Journal(Nov 30, 2016) At Sullivan's request, the undercover agent sent a homemade silencer to his home, which was opened by Sullivan's mother, prosecutors said. Reuters(Nov 29, 2016) He has boasted of placing undercover agents in New York mosques and stated “good Muslims” would benefit from surveillance in their communities. The Guardian(Nov 17, 2016) n (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper spy Margarete Gertrud Zelle Dutch dancer who was executed by the French as a German spy in World War I (1876-1917) counterspy, mole a spy who works against enemy espionage double agenta spy who works for two mutually antagonistic countries espionage agentsomeone employed to spy on another country or business competitor foreign agenta spy for a foreign country infiltratorsomeone who takes up a position surreptitiously for the purpose of espionage sleepera spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal intelligence agent, intelligence officer, operative, secret agent a person secretly employed in espionage for a government |
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