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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 for intelligencer
- correspondent,
- journalist,
- newshound,
- newsman,
- newsperson,
- pressman
- [British],
- reporter
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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
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The first known use of intelligencer was in 1540
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