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spymaster

[ spahy-mas-ter, -mah-ster ]

noun

  1. an espionage agent who directs a network of subordinate agents.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of spymaster1

First recorded in 1940–45; spy + master
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Example Sentences

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.

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