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espionage
[ es-pee-uh-nahzh, -nij, es-pee-uh-nahzh ]
noun
- the act or practice of spying.
- the use of spies by a government to discover the military and political secrets of other nations.
- the use of spies by a corporation or the like to acquire the plans, technical knowledge, etc., of a competitor:
industrial espionage.
espionage
/ ˌɛspɪəˈnɑːʒ; ˈɛspɪəˌnɑːʒ; ˈɛspɪənɪdʒ /
noun
- the systematic use of spies to obtain secret information, esp by governments to discover military or political secrets
- the act or practice of spying
Other Words From
- non·espi·o·nage noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of espionage1
Word History and Origins
Origin of espionage1
Example Sentences
That is why I visited my relatives in Iran in 2011, when I was unjustly arrested and charged with espionage.
In 2011, he was arrested while visiting his grandmother in Iran, charged with espionage, and sentenced to death.
The crime-fighting penguins, says the trailer, are “masters of the skies, espionage, and aerial assault.”
The Spies Next Door By Matt Mendelsohn - Washingtonian Great espionage stories are hiding in neighborhoods all over Washington.
Whatever skills it takes to succeed in espionage or racketeering, I patently lack.
Espionage we can still command—the best, perhaps, in Europe—because here we use a different class of material.
By its construction, the cell of Bezenecq the Rich gave special facilities for such espionage.
By this means he not only kept his senses keyed to a high point, but made his espionage nearer perfect than his friend had done.
He will see a whole civil service turned into a bureau of information, a department of espionage.
The custom of espionage has made him suspect that others are as watchful as himself.
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