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US
/ˈɛspiənɑdʒ/
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[ UK /ˈɛspɪənˌɑːʒ/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛspɪənˌɑːʒ/ ]
NOUN
- the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets
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