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operativesnounpl. of operative a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly countryCIA operatives take terrible risks to find out the secrets of foreign countries agents, assets, emissaries, intelligencers, moles, spies, spooks, undercovers courierscounterspies, double agents, sleepersinfiltrators, informers, stool pigeonsspymasters, superspies secret agents, undercover agents a person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing personsset in the 1930s, the novel is about a washed-out operative working for a third-rate detective agency detectives, dicks, gumshoes, hawkshaws, investigators, private detectives, private eyes, private investigators, shamuses(slang), sherlocks, sleuthhounds, sleuths shadows, tails, tracers, trackersFederals, feds, G-men, narcs(or narks, slang), plainclothesmen |