Word
undercover agent, n.
(military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
<noun.person>
freq. cnt.: 3
freq. cnt.: 3
spy
undercover agent
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
spy
spy
semantic pointers
domain of synset (topic)
armed forces, military, armed services, military machine, war machine
hyponym
counterspy, mole
double agent
espionage agent
foreign agent
infiltrator
sleeper
hypernym
secret agent, intelligence officer, intelligence agent, operative
instance hyponym
Mata Hari, Margarete Gertrud Zelle