secret agent

Questions about secret agent

What does secret agent mean?

secret agent means "a person secretly employed in espionage for a government".

What is another word for secret agent?

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

secret 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.