espionage  /ˈɛ spi ə nɑdʒ/ ? Meaning of "espionage"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets

Usage(s):

  1. While a federal jury in Washington struggled over two million words of testimony in her turbulent trial for espionage, slim, dark-haired Judith Coplon, 28, curled up in a chair in .
  2. In their notebooks, which police found when they broke the Soviet spy ring in Canada in 1946, Soviet espionage agents were accustomed to make a brisk notation in Russian after the .

Quotes

  1. "She is an American citizen and I have complete confidence that she was not engaging in any sort of espionage," Obama said. "She is an Iranian American who was interested in the country which her family came from. And it is appropriate for...
    on Apr 20, 2009 By: Barack Obama Source: FOXNews

  2. "We wound up with a swaybar there somehow," Waltrip said. "I promise you no one went to their tool box and swiped it. This is not intellectual espionage."
    on Mar 30, 2008 By: Michael Waltrip Source: USA Today

  3. "There were DEA agents who worked to conduct political espionage and to fund criminal groups so they could launch attacks on the lives of authorities, if not the president," Morales said.
    on Nov 1, 2008 By: Evo Morales Source: USA Today

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