undercover agent

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   (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors

   Synonymsspy

   Broadersecret agent

   Narrowercounterspydouble agentespionage agentforeign agentinfiltratorsleeperMata Hari

   military

Questions about undercover agent

What does undercover agent mean?

undercover agent means "(military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors".

What is another word for undercover agent?

Close synonyms include spy. 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 undercover agent a common word?

undercover 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.