special agent

1. 1.

   someone whose authority is limited to the special undertaking they have been instructed to perform

   Antonymsgeneral agent

   Broaderagent

Questions about special agent

What does special agent mean?

special agent means "someone whose authority is limited to the special undertaking they have been instructed to perform".

What is the opposite of special agent?

The recorded antonyms are general agent.

Is special agent a common word?

special 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.