federal agent

1. 1.

   any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau

   Synonymsagent

   Broaderofficial

   NarrowerIndian agentFederaltrustbuster

Questions about federal agent

What does federal agent mean?

federal agent means "any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau".

What is another word for federal agent?

Close synonyms include agent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is federal agent a common word?

federal 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.