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emissary
emissary
noun
Definition of EMISSARY
1
a person sent on a mission to represent another <most of the industrialized nations of the world sent emissaries to the conference on global warming>
Related Words ambassadress; attaché, chargé d'affaires, consul, deputy, diplomat, foreign minister, nuncio, procurator, proxy; apostle, evangelist, missionary; deputation, detachment, legation; courier, messenger; mouthpiece, spokesperson
2
a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country <the embassy's staff likely contains at least one emissary who reports to the home country's chief of intelligence>
Related Words courier; counterspy, double agent, sleeper; infiltrator, informer, stool pigeon; spymaster, superspy
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