Definition of spymaster in English:
spymaster
nounˈspʌɪmɑːstəˈspaɪˌmæstər
The head of an organization of spies.
Example sentencesExamples
- He proposed that he should return to Norway with two transmitters, using the second one to send genuine information to the British without the knowledge of the German spymasters.
- British spymasters were completely in the dark about the activities of the hijackers until the FBI alerted them.
- He is the greatest of spy novelists, and his supreme creation has been the spymaster George Smiley, whose skills, passions and uncertainties are at the heart of his finest novels.
- She systematically passed detailed information about Britain's nuclear weapons programme to the KGB spymasters.
- Britain's Cold War spymasters secretly discussed plans to train flocks of homing pigeons to attack enemy targets with tiny but deadly biological weapons.
Definition of spymaster in US English:
spymaster
nounˈspīˌmastərˈspaɪˌmæstər
The head of an organization of spies.
Example sentencesExamples
- She systematically passed detailed information about Britain's nuclear weapons programme to the KGB spymasters.
- British spymasters were completely in the dark about the activities of the hijackers until the FBI alerted them.
- Britain's Cold War spymasters secretly discussed plans to train flocks of homing pigeons to attack enemy targets with tiny but deadly biological weapons.
- He is the greatest of spy novelists, and his supreme creation has been the spymaster George Smiley, whose skills, passions and uncertainties are at the heart of his finest novels.
- He proposed that he should return to Norway with two transmitters, using the second one to send genuine information to the British without the knowledge of the German spymasters.