bridge agent

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   an operative who acts as a courier or go-between from a case officer to a secret agent in a hostile area

   Broadersecret agent

Questions about bridge agent

What does bridge agent mean?

bridge agent means "an operative who acts as a courier or go-between from a case officer to a secret agent in a hostile area".

Is bridge agent a common word?

bridge agent 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.