[ US /ˈɛspiənɑdʒ/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛspɪənˌɑːʒ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets
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How To Use espionage In A Sentence

  • The burden of his espionage responsibilities gives him a distinct air of desperation.
  • The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation is responsible for internal security, for counter-espionage, for counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism.
  • MI5, Britain's internal security and counter-espionage agency, is to play a greater role in informing the UK public about terror alerts.
  • Gosh, it's over a year since I read The Moving Toyshop; here Gervase Fen is embroiled in a mystery of murder and espionage in a West Country cathedral town in about 1940. January Books 27) Holy Disorders, by Edmund Crispin
  • But Mr Fergus did agree with a recent Australian Government decision to increase funding for counter-espionage activities.
  • He appears to have been a member of Walsingham's and Burleigh's intelligence and counter-espionage networks.
  • In this role he had responsibility for compiling intelligence dossiers on its enemies; for planning counter-espionage and for establishing and supervising fascist cells operating in the trade union movement.
  • Each individual was assigned a case officer from a specialist section within the counter-espionage branch to monitor every aspect of the agents' handling.
  • It engages in espionage and terrorism with Isreal.
  • US-Soviet tensions reached new heights because of Berlin and the shooting-down of an American U-2 espionage aircraft over Soviet territory. The Nobel Peace Prize: Revelations from the Soviet Past
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