case officer

1. 1.

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

   Broadersecret agent

   Narroweraction officer

Questions about case officer

What does case officer mean?

case officer means "an operative who also serves as an official staffer of an intelligence service".

Is case officer a common word?

case 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.