the activity of secretly getting important political or military information about another country or of finding out another company’s secrets by using spies synonym spying間諜活動;諜報活動;刺探活動 Some of the commercial activities were a cover for espionage. 有些商業活動是爲間諜活動提供掩護。 She may call it research; I call it industrial espionage. 她可以稱之爲研究,可我稱它爲産業情報刺探。
Extra ExamplesShe was found guilty of espionage against the United States. 她被判犯有反美間諜罪。 The big computer companies are very worried about industrial espionage. 大型電腦公司很擔心業内的間諜活動。 Two members of the embassy staff had been expelled for espionage. 大使館兩名成員因從事間諜活動被驅逐出境了。 espionage on behalf of foreign states 爲外國服務的間諜活動 evidence of espionage activities in Australia 在澳大利亞進行間諜活動的證據 one of the most important espionage cases of the 20th century 20 世紀最重要的間諜案之一 the shadowy world of espionage 鮮爲人知的間諜界
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- corporate
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Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French espionnage, from espionner ‘to spy’, from espion ‘a spy’.