| has gloss | (noun) (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
undercover agent, spy |
| lexicalization | eng: spy |
| lexicalization | eng: undercover agent |
| subclass of | (noun) a person secretly employed in espionage for a government
secret agent, operative, intelligence officer, intelligence agent |
| Note: 57 other subclass(es) ommited in the following list |
| has subclass | (noun) someone employed to spy on another country or business competitor
espionage agent |
| has subclass | (noun) someone who takes up a position surreptitiously for the purpose of espionage
infiltrator |
| has subclass | c/American Revolution spies |
| has subclass | c/American spies against the Soviet Union |
| has subclass | c/Assassinated spies |
| has subclass | c/Australian spies |
| has subclass | c/Austrian spies |
| has subclass | c/British spies against the Soviet Union |
| has subclass | c/British spies |
| has subclass | c/Canadian spies for the Soviet Union |
| has subclass | c/Chinese spies |
| has subclass | c/Convicted spies |
| has subclass | c/Czechoslovak spies against West Germany |
| has subclass | c/Czechoslovak spies against the United States |
| has subclass | c/Eastern Bloc spies for the West |
| has subclass | c/English spies |
| has subclass | c/French spies |
| has subclass | c/German spies for the Soviet Union |
| has subclass | c/German spies |
| has subclass | c/Hungarian spies for the Soviet Union |
| has subclass | c/Incarcerated spies |
| has subclass | c/Inter-War spies |
| has subclass | c/Irish spies |
| has subclass | c/Italian spies |
| has subclass | c/Japanese spies |
| has subclass | c/Pakistani spies |
| has subclass | c/Polish spies for the Soviet Union |
| has subclass | c/Polish spies |
| has subclass | c/Romanian spies |
| has subclass | c/Russian spies |
| has subclass | c/Scottish spies |
| has subclass | c/South African spies for the Soviet Union |
| has subclass | c/South African spies |
| has subclass | c/South Vietnamese spies for North Vietnam |
| has subclass | c/Spies by cause of death |
| has subclass | c/Spies by nationality |
| has subclass | c/Spies by period |
| has subclass | c/Spies of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars |
| has subclass | c/Turkish spies |
| has subclass | c/Western spies for the Eastern Bloc |
| has instance | (noun) Dutch dancer who was executed by the French as a German spy in World War I (1876-1917)
Margarete Gertrud Zelle, Mata Hari |
| has instance | e/Mutt and Jeff (spies) |
| has instance | e/fr/Alexandre Zaporojsky |
| has instance | e/fr/Farewell |
| has instance | e/fr/Léonid Poleshuk |