rezident
Pluralrezidents
- 1The chief intelligence officer directing a rezidentura, the spy station that a foreign service runs inside another country.
Like a branch manager, but for a spy service's covert operations in a host country.
The rezident coordinated three deep-cover agents from the embassy basement.
Moscow recalled the rezident after the network was compromised.
Note
A loan from Russian резиде́нт (rezidént), and the z is the point: it marks a title from Soviet and Russian intelligence rather than the everyday English resident. Resident and resiant are doublets of it, words sharing its origin, but only this spelling belongs to espionage. It takes a regular English plural, rezidents, and travels with rezidentura, the station its holder runs.
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Origin
Borrowed from Russian резиде́нт (rezidént). It is a doublet of "resiant" and "resident".