CASE OFFICER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does case officer mean? 

• CASE OFFICER (noun)
  The noun CASE OFFICER has 1 sense:

1. an operative who also serves as an official staffer of an intelligence service

  Familiarity information: CASE OFFICER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CASE OFFICER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An operative who also serves as an official staffer of an intelligence service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("case officer" is a kind of...):

intelligence agent; intelligence officer; operative; secret agent (a person secretly employed in espionage for a government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "case officer"):

action officer (the case officer designated to perform an act during a clandestine operation (especially in a hostile area))