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Government agent

noun

A representative or official of a government or administrative department of a government.

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"Government agent" Quotes from Famous Books

... the simple, forceful English for which he became famous. His education was planned to make him a dissenting minister; but he preferred a life of varied activity. He became a trader, a manufacturer of tiles, a journalist, and a writer of fiction. By also serving as a government agent and spy, he incurred the severe criticism of contemporaries. It is doubtful if even Shakespeare had more varied experiences or more vicissitudes ...

— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck

... far through woods and deep forest dingles to yield its tribute to the Otonabee. There is the busy post-office, on the velvet carpet of turf; a few years, yes, even a few years ago, that spot was a grove of trees. The neat log building that stood then alone there, was inhabited by the Government Agent, now Colonel Macdonald, and groups of Indians might be seen congregated on the green, or reposing under the trees, forming meet subjects for the painter's pencil, for he knew them well, and was kind ...

— Canadian Crusoes - A Tale of The Rice Lake Plains • Catharine Parr Traill

Words linked to "Government agent" : agent, revenuer, FBI agent, T-man, G-man, government man