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FEDERAL AGENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does federal agent mean? 

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

1. any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureauplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


FEDERAL AGENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

agent; federal agent

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

functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "federal agent"):

Indian agent (a representative of the federal government to American Indian tribes (especially on Indian reservations))

Fed; Federal; federal official (any federal law-enforcement officer)

trustbuster (a federal agent who engages in trust busting)


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