foreign agent

1. 1.

   a spy for a foreign country

   Broaderspy

Questions about foreign agent

What does foreign agent mean?

foreign agent means "a spy for a foreign country".

Is foreign agent a common word?

foreign 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.