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
Example Sentences
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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
With all his fortunes darkened for a day,— And the eye o' his reason, sweet intelligencer, Under a beggarly patch....
From One-Act Plays By Modern Authors by Various
Mr. Lovelace communicated to me this morning early, from his intelligencer, the news of my brother's scheme.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Richardson, Samuel
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