safehouse
Spy's secret retreat
A safehouse is a secret location used as a refuge or meeting place, typically by people evading authorities or danger.
Intelligence agents use safehouses to debrief sources.
Criminals hide in safehouses between operations.
The term also applies to shelters for abuse victims or witnesses under protection: The organization operates a safehouse for trafficking survivors.
Sometimes written as two words: safe house.
Shelter from danger
- sanctuaryProtected sacred space
- asylumShelter from persecution
- shelterProtected place or structure
- protectionGuarding against harm
escape · hiding · retreat · bolt-hole · emergency · survival · persecution · resistance
Covert information gatherer
- agentOne who acts independently
- operativeCovert field agent
- intelligenceMental ability, cognitive capacity
- undercoverSecretly engaged in espionage
clandestine · covert · mission · tradecraft · exfiltration · infiltration · counterintelligence · dead drop
Secret place of refuge
- fugitiveOne fleeing authorities
- smugglerIllegal goods transporter
- contrabandProhibited trade goods
- witnessOne who attests
on the run · manhunt · evasion · underworld · harboring · accomplice · getaway · lay low
Made more resistant
- bunkerReinforced subterranean stronghold
- checkpointInspection station on route
- extraction pointDesignated evacuation location
- secure perimeterProtected boundary around location
garrison · outpost · insurgent · resistance · warzone · occupied territory · partisan · guerrilla
haven
Shelter from danger
protection · escape · hiding · retreat · bolt-hole · emergency · survival · persecution · resistance · concealment
spy
Covert information gatherer
- agentOne who acts independently
- operativeCovert field agent
- intelligenceMental ability, cognitive capacity
undercover · clandestine · covert · mission · tradecraft · exfiltration · infiltration · counterintelligence · dead drop · code name
hideout
Secret place of refuge
- fugitiveOne fleeing authorities
- smugglerIllegal goods transporter
- contrabandProhibited trade goods
witness · on the run · manhunt · evasion · underworld · harboring · accomplice · getaway · lay low · heat
fortified
Made more resistant
- bunkerReinforced subterranean stronghold
- checkpointInspection station on route
- extraction pointDesignated evacuation location
secure perimeter · garrison · outpost · insurgent · resistance · warzone · occupied territory · partisan · guerrilla · command post
- secret lairslair, hideout, underground base, hidden chamber, fortress
- Spy Fictionspy, secret agent, double agent, MI6, CIA
- action filmschase scene, car chase, explosion, stunt, shootout
- hideawayshideaway, hideout, hiding place, lair, den
- refugesrefuge, haven, sanctuary, hideaway, hideout
- secure placesprison, jail, vault, bank vault, fortress
safehousedanger zone
High-risk location
kill zone · trap · hot zone · death trap · hostile territory
safehouseheadquarters
Central command location
command center · detention facility · black site · front lines · prison