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(espionage) A person who defects to a foreign power but remains in their home country so as to gather information etc..
Use defector-in-place when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Defector-in-place means (espionage) A person who defects to a foreign power but remains in their home country so as to gather information etc..
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