Definitions for double agent

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

dou′ble a′gent(n.)

  1. a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it; a spy in the service of two rival countries.

    Category: Government

Origin of double agent:

1930–35

Princeton's WordNet

  1. double agent(noun)

    a spy who works for two mutually antagonistic countries

Wiktionary

  1. double agent(Noun)

    A spy who pretends to work for one side, when they are truthfully working for the other/ passing information to the other.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. double agent

    Agent in contact with two opposing intelligence services, only one of which is aware of the double contact or quasi-intelligence services.


Translations for double agent

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

double agent(noun singular)

a spy paid by each of two countries hostile to each other.

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