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special agent

noun

  1. an investigator in a law enforcement agency.
  2. an insurance sales representative.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of special agent1

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

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Example Sentences

A Fish and Wildlife special agent collected the bodies of two birds at the site, a redhead duck and a mourning dove.

He returned to TV in Chicago Hope, before landing NCIS, a spinoff from JAG in 2003, playing Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

Special Agent Xavier Diaz testified he once drove five hours west of the city to meet Arambula in Nogales, Arizona.

FBI Assistant Special Agent Robert Howe told The Daily Beast that it took the team two hours to identify the spot.

In his testimony, Flemmi claimed that when Bulger first introduced him to special agent Connolly at a coffee shop in Newton.

A special agent is authorized to do a specific thing, to sell a home, buy a horse, or effect some particular end or purpose.

If I, in writing, authorize my special agent to sell my Ink-stand for a dollar, I am bound by his act in obedience thereto.

The three of us and Special Agent Greer pushed him into the emergency area.

Special Agent Youngblood's action came immediately after the first shot and before the succeeding shots.

Judge G. Mott, another special agent, who had been dispatched to examine Nesmiths superintendency, did the same.

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