GOVERNMENT AGENT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A representative or official of a government or administrative department of a government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("government agent" is a kind of...):

agent (a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "government agent"):

FBI agent; G-man; government man (a special law-enforcement agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation)

revenuer (a government agent responsible for collecting revenue (especially one responsible for stopping bootlegging))

T-man (a special law-enforcement agent of the United States Treasury)