intelligencer

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Noun

intelligencer (plural intelligencers)

1. (dated) A bringer of intelligence (news, information); a spy or informant.
   • 1922, Geoffrey Montagu Cookson (transl.), The Suppliant Maidens, page 8 in Four Plays of Aeschylus.

     'Tis likely that the Princes of this land
     Have heard of us from messengers and come
     To be their own intelligencers.

Synonyms

• (bringer of intelligence) informant, spy

Related terms

• intelligence
• intelligent

Translations

• German: Zuträger

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