Double Agent

Definition: Double Agent

Double Agent

Noun

1. A spy who works for two mutually antagonistic countries.

Crosswords: Double Agent

English words defined with "double agent": blow. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Double agent

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A double agent pretends to spy on a target organization on behalf of a controlling organization, but in fact is loyal to the target organization. Double agents may be agents of the target organization who infiltrate the controlling organization, or may be previously loyal agents of the controlling organization who have been captured and turned by the target.

Double agents are often used to transmit disinformation or to identify other agents as part of counter-espionage operations.

See: espionage.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Double agent."

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Modern Usage: Double Agent

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Double Agent 73 (1974)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Double Agent

Domain	Title
Books	Cargo of Lies: The True Story of a Nazi Double Agent in Canada (reference) Double Agent (reference) George Blake: double agent (reference) Spy: America's First Double Agent, Dr. Edward Bancroft (reference) Treason: How a Russian Spy Led an American Journalist to a U.S. Double Agent (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Double Agent

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
double agent	14
double agent 73	6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Double Agent

Language		Translations for "double agent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		agent double. (various references)

German		doppelagent. (various references)

Pig Latin		oubleday agentay

Russian		стран, работающий на несколько организаций, шпион (a spy, emissary, infiltrator, intelligencer, keeker, rat, spier, spy). (various references)

Turkish		ikili çalışan casus, çift taraflı ajan. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Double Agent

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	exitus duplex ventriculi dextri. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Double Agent

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-g-l-n-o-t-u"
	-2 letters: detonable, elongated.
	-3 letters: belonged, bludgeon, elongate, englobed, globated, tuneable, unbelted, unbolted, undoable.
	-4 letters: abluent, abluted, angeled, belated, bleated, bloated, blunged, blunted, bondage, bungled, butanol, dogbane, doublet, elegant, enabled, englobe, eugenol, euglena, gelated, gentled, getable, gleaned, gloated, globate, glouted, goateed, gunboat, languet, latened, leagued, legated, lobated, lounged, lunated, nebulae, negated, notable, outland, taloned, tangelo.
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