government man

1. 1.

   a special law-enforcement agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

   SynonymsG-manFBI agent

   Broadergovernment agent

Questions about government man

What does government man mean?

government man means "a special law-enforcement agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation".

What is another word for government man?

Close synonyms include G-man, FBI 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 government man a common word?

government man 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.