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ESPIONAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does espionage mean?
• ESPIONAGE (noun)
The noun ESPIONAGE has 1 sense:
1. the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets
Familiarity information: ESPIONAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("espionage" is a kind of...):
spying; undercover work (the act of keeping a secret watch for intelligence purposes)
Context examples
What has it been but a system of hypocrisy and deceit,—espionage, and treachery?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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