Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person pretending to work as a spy for one government while actually working as a spy for another government.
Wiktionary
- n. espionage A spy who pretends to work for one side, when they are truthfully working for the other/ passing information to the other.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a spy who works for two mutually antagonistic countries
Examples
“In his letter from Allenwood, Rick Ames offered a subtler definition: A double agent may be of two sorts: one who was a bona fide agent of an espionage service but who was turned, tumbled or recruited by another without the first service’s knowledge or one who falsely gains the trust of an espionage service in order to serve another.”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“In the era of Kim Philby and James Jesus Angleton—the first a notorious British double agent for the Soviets, the second the crazed, paranoid chief of CIA counterintelligence—my parents fit the category of people who would have made valuable assets for either camp.”
“His organization was infiltrated by an army double agent who was allowed to carry out several sneak attacks, killing large numbers of soldiers, to prove his authenticity to Zapata.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘double agent’.
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•Open List: Two for One
Phrases using the word "double." No doubles allowed. ;-)
double over, double up, doubled fists, double blanket, double room, double bed, double time, double sink, double-time, double scotch, double back, on the double and 87 more...
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Not the Clearest of Intentions
You ever try to read someone who can't be read? What is he thinking? What is he going to do? Whose side is he really on?
hidden agenda, doublespeak, backstabbing, treasonous, covert, mysterious, questionable, shady, flattering, sycophant, brownnose, secretive and 78 more...
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