intelligencer

intelligencer

noun

Definition of INTELLIGENCER

1

a person employed by a newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station to gather, write, or report news <the student journalist asked questions as probing as those of a seasoned intelligencer>

Synonyms correspondent, intelligencer, journalist, newshound, newsman, newsperson, pressman [British]

Related Words announcer, broadcaster, newscaster, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswoman; anchor, anchorman, anchorperson, anchorwoman; byliner, columnist, commentator; copyreader, editor; muckraker, photojournalist, police reporter, sportswriter, staffer, stringer

2

a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country <as the nation's top intelligencer, the director of the CIA should have been more skeptical of the information he was being fed>

Synonyms agent, asset, emissary, intelligencer, mole, operative, spook, undercover

Related Words courier; counterspy, double agent, sleeper; infiltrator, informer, stool pigeon; spymaster, superspy