intelligence officer
33
3.7
- noun
- /ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒəns ˈɔfɪsər/
- Specialized
:
oficial de inteligencia
- During the briefing, the intelligence officer presented crucial findings about potential threats.
- former intelligence officer
- military intelligence officer
- Army intelligence officer
So they can sit down with with with currently serving intelligence officers and talk intelligence stuff.
- So they can sit down with with with currently serving intelligence officers and talk intelligence stuff.
- I've had intelligence officers follow me in South Africa, Canada.
- So there's there's two outcomes that we're always aware of as intelligence officers.
- Most intelligence officers must have a degree of healthy paranoia or they're going to wind up dead, right?
- That just happened in the United States of America underoath the highest level intelligence officers ever.
Examples
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The Senate report cited an intelligence officer who reviewed Wilson's report upon his return from Niger.
Blog text (30) -
Politicians and former intelligence officers also said that they had warned the government.
Academic text (2007) -
I should think even an Intelligence officer would see that.
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I know you have some very prominent intelligence officers under your command.
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Were you aware these two men were Iranian intelligence officers?
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Burdick, the other intelligence officer, sat off to one end.
Fiction book (2002) -
We speak with William Arkin, the former Army intelligence officer, who obtained the secret Pentagon documents.
Blog text (34) -
You are the best intelligence officer I've ever known, Layton.
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You're an intelligence officer with the CIA.
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We discovered a high-level intelligence officer was trying to manipulate satellites.
Synonyms
623
2.9
A person who secretly collects information for a government or company
201
7.3
A person who works as a secret agent or detective
27
3.4
A person who gathers hidden information for a government about enemies
13
3.0
A person who secretly works for a government to get information about the country's safety
8
7.5
A person who manages secret sources who give information to a spy agency
8
3.9
A person who collects and studies information about threats for the government or military
1
7.7
A person in the military or intelligence who carries out a secret task
1
5.8
A person who secretly gets information for another country or company
How Senior
- Formal
8
6.5
172
5.2
- Specialized
33
3.7
50
2.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and predictably derived from combining 'intelligence' (secret information) with 'officer' (a person in an official role): it refers to an officer who handles intelligence. This straightforward noun+noun composition is a common, compositional pattern in English and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will generally understand the MWE.
Etymology
Intelligence officer comes from the image of an official who collects and makes sense of secret information. The word intelligence here means 'knowledge' about enemies or dangers, and officer shows a government worker, so the phrase means someone who finds, studies, and reports secret information for a country's safety.