espionage

Phonetic

Translations

Variants

• espionages: Plural

Examples

• The ministry/ˈmɪnɪstri/ engaged in online espionage/ˈespiənɑːʒ/ but was long overshadowed/ˌəʊvərˈʃædəʊd/ by the Chinese military, which ran extensive/ɪkˈstensɪv/ cyberspying operations.

  Source:cn.nytimes.com

• Ties between the two nations withered in 2018 over Canada’s arrest of Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei’s founder on a US warrant, and China’s retaliatory detention of two Canadians on espionage charges.

  Source:www.theguardian.com

• These operativesˈɑːpərətˌɪvz sometimes mixed espionage/ˈespiənɑːʒ/ with commercial data theft/θeft/ or were sloppy, exposing their presence.

  Source:cn.nytimes.com

• (She was arrested in January on unspecified espionage charges and sentenced in July to nine years in prison

  Source:www.nytimes.com

• States had mainly used hacking for acts of espionage and financial thievery, for subversion and sabotage

  Source:www.nytimes.com