intelligence officer

1. 1.

   a person secretly employed in espionage for a government

   Synonymssecret agentintelligence agentoperative

   Broaderagent

   Narroweragent-in-placeagent provocateurbridge agentcase officercodetalkerfootNOCspywalk-in

Questions about intelligence officer

What does intelligence officer mean?

intelligence officer means "a person secretly employed in espionage for a government".

What is another word for intelligence officer?

Close synonyms include secret agent, intelligence agent, operative. 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 intelligence officer a common word?

intelligence 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.