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secret agent

noun

an agent of a secret service.
(loosely) a person employed to collect the military secrets of one country and relay them to another, especially a person living in a foreign country while so working for their own nation; spy.

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First recorded in 1830–40

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Those performances were the reason, Hitch said, he was less satisfied with Secret Agent than with Rebecca.

He allegedly claimed he was a secret agent whose job was to protect them from their enemies.

As the war began, he started a series of novels featuring secret agent Gregory Sallust.

The Nazis rated him their best spy in England; the Brits said he was the greatest secret agent of the war.

Hurst has since said the newspaper may have been looking for information about a famous secret agent known as Stakeknife.

About the same time congress sent Deane to France as a secret agent.

The man who advocates "one big strike" to destroy our capital is the secret agent of starvation.

To some he said that he was a secret agent of the government, to others that he only meant to start a new pioneer settlement.

She was a secret agent—there was no doubt—working probably in the service of the Dalmatian government.

The Government offered me a well paid commission to act as its secret agent.

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