intelligencer
Americannoun
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a person or thing that conveys information.
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an informer; spy.
noun
Etymology
Origin of intelligencer
First recorded in 1570–80; intelligence + -er 2
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The former minister told Aluko she had already spoken about his "general behaviour, acquisition of assets, etc, asking you to be careful because intelligencer will start following you".
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
Marlowe, we think, worked as a secret agent or "intelligencer" in the proto-secret service that Francis Walsingham set up for Elizabeth I, and in all likelihood conducted espionage abroad.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2010
Shakespeare speaks of Richard as "hell's black intelligencer," "that bottled spider, this poisonous bunch-back'd toad."
From Time Magazine Archive
O it is the art of arts, and ten thousand times goes beyond the intelligencer.
From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Edmund Gosse
To us the speaker in his parliament; To us the imagined voice of God himself; The very opener and intelligencer Between the grace, the sanctities of heaven And our dull workings.
From King Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
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