action officer

1. 1.

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

   Broadercase officer

Questions about action officer

What does action officer mean?

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

Is action officer a common word?

action officer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.