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spymaster

/spahy-mas-ter, -mah-ster/US // ˈspaɪˌmæs tər, -ˌmɑ stər //

间谍大师,谍报员,间谍专家,谍报专家

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an espionage agent who directs a network of subordinate agents.

Examples

  • One reason, as Gorenberg reveals, is that the spies and spymasters who made history were told, “Now history must have no memory of you.”

  • When the president of the United States and his spymaster sound like Putin, it might be time to rethink things.

  • Celebrity Name-Drop IMF chief Christine Lagarde, Oxygen founder “Gerry” Laybourne, ex–U.K. spymaster Dame Stella Rimington.

  • And it is a police state whose mukhabarat chief is a KGB-trained spymaster with a reputation for ruthlessness.

  • Germany even gave East German spymaster Markus Wolf a government pension and let him peacefully retire.

  • After a string of disappointing books, the Cold War spymaster is back with a great new novel.