intelligence officer

noun

1. a military officer responsible for collecting and processing data on hostile forces, weather, and terrain.

Word History and Origins

Origin of intelligence officer¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

To understand the story behind the administration’s Russia negotiations, The Wall Street Journal spoke to dozens of officials, diplomats, and former and current intelligence officers from the U.S.,

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The army, an intelligence officer told me, would then turn its attention to other parts of the country - Hezbollah's presence is also significant in the Dahieh and the eastern Bekaa Valley.

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There at night, a cluster of municipal officials and workers would wait for the trucks, summoned by military intelligence officers to bury the bodies.

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Phillips offered to help two agents who he thought were from the country's intelligence service, but who were actually undercover British intelligence officers.

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The vaunted intelligence service of close ally, Cuba, has worked to identify plots and renegades, with intelligence officers placed in every unit.

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