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Noun: undercover agent
  1. (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
    - spy

Derived forms: undercover agents

Type of: intelligence agent, intelligence officer, operative, secret agent, spook [informal], spy

Encyclopedia: Undercover agent