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ESPIONAGE AGENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does espionage agent mean? 

ESPIONAGE AGENT (noun)
  The noun ESPIONAGE AGENT has 1 sense:

1. someone employed to spy on another country or business competitorplay

  Familiarity information: ESPIONAGE AGENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ESPIONAGE AGENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone employed to spy on another country or business competitor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("espionage agent" is a kind of...):

spy; 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 competitors)


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