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View synonyms for secret agent

secret agent

noun

  1. an agent of a secret service.
  2. (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.


secret agent

noun

  1. a person employed in espionage
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of secret agent1

First recorded in 1830–40
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Example Sentences

As John Black, across more than 4,200 episodes, Hogestyn was a spy, mercenary, police officer, private investigator and secret agent.

“Driving that would spoil the whole secret part of ‘secret agent.’

They do not know that in reality I am a secret agent named Wainscotting.

“It would be cooler if she was a secret agent,” Zayd says, before continuing to narrate.

"You are my secret agent. With love," the contact said on 23 March after requesting information about a certain country.

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