rezidentn.
/rɛzᵻˈdɛnt/, U.S. /rɛz(ə)ˈdɛnt/ = resident n.1 4.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > political police > [noun] > secret service agent > in a foreign country
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1959 P. Deriabin & F. Gibney Secret World xv. 177 The terms ‘Resident’ and ‘Residency’, translations of the Russian Rezident and Rezidentura, are not to be confused either with U.S. legal terminology or the British colonial outposts on which the sun never sets. They are merely technical descriptions for the intelligence chief of a particular jurisdiction in foreign service, and his establishment.]
1968 W. Garner Deep, Deep Freeze xii. 132 The London rezidenty: ‘illegal’ agents who are members of Soviet rezidentsii in foreign countries.
1969 J. Fredman Fourth Agency vi. 47 Appointed 1st Secretary Soviet Embassy, Washington. This post believed to be official ‘Rezident’ for direction of all illegals under G.R.U. tutelage in U.S.A.
1984 M. Burke Commissar's Rep. v. 46 Katya did not worry me. Boris did. He was the rezident—the head of the secret police within the embassy.
1993 T. Clancy Without Remorse (1994) xxviii. 548 The KGB rezident in Hanoi had General-Major rank.
2005 New Yorker 11 Apr. 21/1 The Warsaw rezident..had developed a knowledge of at least the rudiments of Church procedure.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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