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mole

 
/moʊl/ n [C] (PERSON)

Definition

a person who works within an organization, such as a government department, and secretly reports information about its activities to its enemy
(Definition of mole n (PERSON) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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