What does CL stand for?

Contract Linguist (US government)

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Military and Government

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Samples in periodicals archive:

It takes the FBI some 19 months to hire a contract linguist, "an increase from the 16 months we found in 2005 audit," the report read.

FBI lacks translators for terror intelligence: audit

This figure includes over 6,000 private contract linguists supporting various military operations around the world at a total annual cost exceeding $250 million (Alexander, 2004).

Commercial augmentation for intelligence operations: lessons learned ...

The contract linguist must be able to obtain a Top Secret security clearance and undergo a language proficiency screening.

The National Virtual Translation Center

Our civilian contract linguist broke the language barrier.

Lessons learned from Afghanistan: a battalion S2's perspective

Only when the Army has accessed all Components and depleted their inventories of linguists should it hire contract linguists to meet its requirements.

The growing importance of languages in the fight against terror