Meanings
nounintelligencer (plural intelligencers)
plural intelligencers
- datedA bringer of intelligence (news, information); a spy or informant.
'Tis likely that the Princes of this land Have heard of us from messengers and come To be their own intelligencers.
1922, “The Suppliant Maidens”, in Geoffrey Montagu Cookson, transl., Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 8
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Translations
Bulgarian разузнавач, информатор
- разузнавач (razuznavač)a bringer of intelligence, news, information
- информатор (informator)a bringer of intelligence, news, information
German Zuträger
- Zuträgera bringer of intelligence, news, information
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