[U] the activity of secretly getting important political or military information about another country or of finding out another company's secrets by using SPIES:
Some of the commercial activities were a cover for espionage. * She may call it research; I call it industrial espionage.
seealsoCOUNTER-ESPIONAGE
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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