Person engaged obtaining information that is considered secret or confidential.
Portuguese
espião Catalan
agent secret (Military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors.
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Examples for "stag"
Examples for "stag"
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In fact, he looked just like the royal stag in the picture.
2
They didn't seem to be on stag; they were far too casual.
3
The stag was the most magnificent animal the knight had ever seen.
4
We have had princely sport in hunting the stag on these mountains.
5
He'd been trying to help me when he went after the stag.
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You made it way too easy for some snoop to get in.
2
I need you to come in and snoop around without raising suspicion.
3
So, the summer event is an opportunity to have a gratifying snoop.
4
Of course I see to it she doesn't snoop around in here.
5
Should we snoop around the hotel, asking about the father and son?
1
Despite being a former sleuth, my sense of direction is sadly lacking.
2
Ronson's pose is that of the ingenue sleuth: Colombo with added neuroses.
3
Hartley took the leaf torn out of the sleuth's dingy memorandum book.
4
Emma shifted in the passenger seat and mentally assumed her sleuth mode.
5
I will hide my every movement from you, my marble-faced old sleuth.
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New legislation governing New Zealand's spy agencies has been passed by Parliament.
2
None of my ladies would answer a question from an English spy.
3
Read: Trump adviser said microwaves were used to spy on the Donald.
4
The 54-year-old worked as a spy in Scandinavia, Africa and Western Europe.
5
Some American recruits had concerns about working for a foreign spy service.
6
Russian state TV claimed the FSB had exposed a major spy ring.
7
Her spy was still waiting to learn the value of his information.
8
Gunfire also erupted inside the spy agency's building, an official source said.
9
The government seems to think every Jap is a spy these days.
10
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service spy agency said it could not comment.
11
Nevertheless, the former spy's career included close-up experience of a catastrophic operation.
12
Cooperation is close across the main spy agencies at home and abroad.
13
One must be the half-foolish Nicko; the other must be the spy.
14
The lot of the professional spy will be harder in the future.
15
A German spy was shot during the Second World War in 1941.
16
Some of America's spy agencies probably rely too much on outside companies.
