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spy
[ spahy ]
noun
- a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
- a person who keeps close and secret watch on the actions and words of another or others.
- a person who seeks to obtain confidential information about the activities, plans, methods, etc., of an organization or person, especially one who is employed for this purpose by a competitor:
an industrial spy.
- the act of spying.
verb (used without object)
- to observe secretively or furtively with hostile intent (often followed by on or upon ).
- to act as a spy; engage in espionage.
- to be on the lookout; keep watch.
- to search for or examine something closely or carefully.
verb (used with object)
- to catch sight of suddenly; espy; descry:
to spy a rare bird overhead.
- to discover or find out by observation or scrutiny (often followed by out ).
- to observe (a person, place, enemy, etc.) secretively or furtively with hostile intent.
- to inspect or examine or to search or look for closely or carefully.
spy
/ 蝉辫补瑟 /
noun
- a person employed by a state or institution to obtain secret information from rival countries, organizations, companies, etc
- a person who keeps secret watch on others
- obsolete.a close view
verb
- intrusually foll byon to keep a secret or furtive watch (on)
- intr to engage in espionage
- tr to catch sight of; descry
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 蝉辫测顎僺丑颈辫 noun
- 辞耻迟顎却辫测顎 verb (used with object) outspied outspying
- 蝉耻顎僷别谤路蝉辫测顎 noun plural superspies
- 耻苍路蝉辫颈别诲顎 adjective
- 耻苍路蝉辫测顎僫苍驳 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of spy1
Example Sentences
At a time when fears about German spies were heightened, you could only talk to people you "worked with, or you lived with," according to Gwenfron.
Mr Donaldson was once a key figure in Sinn F茅in's rise as a political force in Northern Ireland but he was found murdered in 2006 after it emerged he had been a spy.
It sounds like it could be the plot of a spy novel, but the 'Shetland Bus' was a real undercover operation carried out to help the resistance in Nazi-occupied Norway during World War Two.
In the past, cyber criminals have accessed internal messaging systems of companies including Uber and Rockstar Games to spy on communications and post ransom demands.
"We came to the conclusion that Israel is going to a very bad place," Danny Yatom, a former head of the spy agency Mossad told me.
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