Espiocrat

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A professional spy; a member of an espionage bureaucracy.

    "If the Enforcers bonded closer every day, the espiocrats from Pure Intelligence did not take lightly to their rôle as second-class citizens."

Example

More examples

"If the Enforcers bonded closer every day, the espiocrats from Pure Intelligence did not take lightly to their rôle as second-class citizens."

Etymology

From espio(nage) + -crat.

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