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spy1 nounspy2 verb spyspy1 /spaɪ/ ●●○ noun (plural spies) [countable]   - an enemy spy
- He had been accused of spying and held without trial for ten years.
- He was suspected of having been a spy during the war.
- The 11 men had allegedly been involved in spying.
- The job of the secret police was to hunt down spies and traitors.
- A spy pays for himself twice, because there's always the reward when we turn him in.
- A sort of known and often welcome spy.
- In any case, I don't think I'd make a very good spy.
► spy someone whose job is to find out secret information about another country: · Stalin controlled a network of spies.· The film is basically a spy story. ► agent/secret agent someone who works for a government or police department in order to get secret information about another country or organization: · a secret agent working for MI5· He is the FBI’s best undercover agent (=one who works secretly and pretends to be someone else). ► double agent someone who finds out an enemy country’s secrets for their own country but who also gives secrets to the enemy: · a former CIA double agent who also worked for the KGB ► mole someone who works for an organization while secretly giving information to its enemies: · A mole in the government was leaking information to the press. ► informer someone who secretly tells the police about criminal activities, especially for money: · Acting on information from an informer, the police raided the house. ► espionage the work that spies do: · He is serving a 20-year prison sentence for espionage. to spy► spy to secretly collect information about an enemy government: · A former US diplomat has confessed to spying.spy on: · For years the satellite spied on secret weapon bases.spy for: · Philby had been spying for the Russians for several years. ► espionage the collecting of political, military, or industrial secrets from another country or organization: · Zakharov, a KGB agent, was charged with espionage.industrial espionage (=the collecting of secrets about a competing company): · The banks take precautions to prevent any attempts at industrial espionage while confidential documents are on the premises. ► be in the pay of if someone is in the pay of a country or organization, they are being paid by that country or organization to spy for them: · Before becoming President, the general was in the pay of the CIA.· There were persistent rumours that the former head of British Intelligence was in the pay of the Soviet Union. ► infiltrate to secretly join a group or organization whose principles or activities you strongly oppose, in order to find out more about them, or to harm them in some way: · The Communists effectively infiltrated the government and the political parties.· Police attempts to infiltrate neo-Nazi groups have been largely unsuccessful.· Everyone knew the organization had been infiltrated by government agents, but could not prove it. ► counterespionage the activity of trying to find out about and prevent an enemy from spying in your own country: · His novels deal with the world of spies, espionage and counterespionage.· the murder of two counterespionage officers someone who spies► spy · He was suspected of having been a spy during the war.· The job of the secret police was to hunt down spies and traitors. ► agent someone working for a government or police department who tries to get secret information about another country or organization: · Wray was filmed passing money to an enemy agent.· a book of memoirs written by a retired MI5 agent, Peter Wrightsecret agent: · He had been a secret agent of the enemy all along. ► mole someone who works inside an organization who gives secret information to someone on the outside, for example a newspaper: · The government suspects there is a mole who is leaking information to the press.· The mole was discovered to be the 25-year-old secretary of the minister. verbs► work as a spy· He died while working as a government spy. ► be arrested/imprisoned/shot etc as a spy· Anyone caught working with the Resistance was shot as a spy. ADJECTIVES/NOUN + spy► a British/American etc spy· He was arrested on suspicion of being an American spy. ► a foreign spy· The activities of foreign spies have increased. ► an enemy spy· He gave information to enemy spies. ► a government spy· They thought I was a government spy. spy + NOUN► a spy story/novel/movie etc· John le Carré is famous for writing spy stories.· one of the most exciting spy movies of all time ► a spy ring (also a network of spies) (=a group of spies)· He was well informed through his network of spies. ► a spy satellite/plane (=used for spying)· The Americans have denied using spy satellites to spy on China.· The photographs were taken by spy planes. ► a spy chief (also a spymaster)· Britain's first woman spy chief· John le Carré’s fictional spy master George Smiley ► a spy plane· An unmanned US spy plane had been shot down. ADJECTIVE► foreign· News from foreign courts, spies, envoys, merchants and other clerks. ► soviet· They thought he was a Soviet spy. NOUN► chief· As spy chief, Mr Montesinos visited Guzman at the naval base on several occasions to question him.· Yeltsin picked Yevgeny Primakov, a spy chief, for foreign minister. ► network· And who could be sure that such secrets could be kept from the spy network still strong in every dormitory and classroom? ► plane· At one point U.S. military and intelligence services had 17 spy planes over Escobar's home city of Medellin.· The main culprit is the Pioneer, a smaller, less advanced spy plane that the Hunter was supposed to replace.· So did our successful interception of your spy plane.· They were here to defend the heavens against high-altitude spy planes.· It is a little more complicated to copy a spy plane, but George Bush has a similar problem right now.· I heard over the voice of america that they released Powers the U2 spy plane fellow.· These bats are like miniature spy planes, bristling with sophisticated instrumentation.· But everyone gave the spy plane, nicknamed the Dragon Drone, high marks for simplicity and usefulness. ► ring· Secret files reveal an Oxford spy ring.· It suggests there was an Oxford spy ring in the 1930s which passed secrets to the Soviet Union. ► satellite· During the Kosovo conflict, the thick cloud meant that some unmanned aerial vehicles took more useful pictures than spy satellites.· These spy satellites were to be in place within a few years to monitor all Soviet military activities.· It is generally believed that the earliest Soviet military use of photographic imaging spy satellites was in 1962. ► story· Tolstoy, Hemingway and Hardy, thrillers and spy stories, historical novels, light romances.· There must be a spy story in here somewhere.· She had been reduced to using ploys straight out of spy stories.· It was very small, and in the best spy stories wouldn't have been noticed. ► thriller· We had been involved in an historical adventure as gripping as any detective tale or spy thriller.· By his bed was the same spy thriller, still open at the page where he had left it. ► nest of spies/thieves/intrigue etc- Neville Chamberlain wrote that the Cabinet was a nest of intrigue, which was, considering everything, an understatement.
- Perhaps we're in the middle of a nest of spies whom Meredith-Lee was about to unmask.
- He was attacked in Sandbach after confronting a suspected burglar.
someone whose job is to find out secret information about another country, organization, or group SYN secret agent:  She worked as a spy for the American government.spy ring/network (=an organized group of spies)spy plane/satelliteCOLLOCATIONSverbswork as a spy· He died while working as a government spy.be arrested/imprisoned/shot etc as a spy· Anyone caught working with the Resistance was shot as a spy.ADJECTIVES/NOUN + spya British/American etc spy· He was arrested on suspicion of being an American spy.a foreign spy· The activities of foreign spies have increased.an enemy spy· He gave information to enemy spies.a government spy· They thought I was a government spy.spy + NOUNa spy story/novel/movie etc· John le Carré is famous for writing spy stories.· one of the most exciting spy movies of all timea spy ring (also a network of spies) (=a group of spies)· He was well informed through his network of spies.a spy satellite/plane (=used for spying)· The Americans have denied using spy satellites to spy on China.· The photographs were taken by spy planes.a spy chief (also a spymaster)· Britain's first woman spy chief· John le Carré’s fictional spy master George SmileyTHESAURUSspy someone whose job is to find out secret information about another country: · Stalin controlled a network of spies.· The film is basically a spy story.agent/secret agent someone who works for a government or police department in order to get secret information about another country or organization: · a secret agent working for MI5· He is the FBI’s best undercover agent (=one who works secretly and pretends to be someone else).double agent someone who finds out an enemy country’s secrets for their own country but who also gives secrets to the enemy: · a former CIA double agent who also worked for the KGBmole someone who works for an organization while secretly giving information to its enemies: · A mole in the government was leaking information to the press.informer someone who secretly tells the police about criminal activities, especially for money: · Acting on information from an informer, the police raided the house.espionage the work that spies do: · He is serving a 20-year prison sentence for espionage.spy1 nounspy2 verb spyspy2 ●●○ verb (past tense and past participle spied, present participle spying) spy2Origin: 1200-1300 Old French espier VERB TABLEspy |
| Present | I, you, we, they | spy | | he, she, it | spies | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | spied | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have spied | | he, she, it | has spied | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had spied | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will spy | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have spied |
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| Present | I | am spying | | he, she, it | is spying | | you, we, they | are spying | | Past | I, he, she, it | was spying | | you, we, they | were spying | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been spying | | he, she, it | has been spying | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been spying | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be spying | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been spying |
- A former US diplomat has confessed to spying.
- For years the satellite spied on secret weapon bases.
- I spied him standing on the other side of the room.
- Philby had been spying for the Russians for several years.
- Boxing: Jacobs spies the ladder.
- He said Hanssen had begun spying in 1979 and stopped voluntarily in 1981.
- Lili sensed that she was being spied on, but she didn't care.
- Pope has insisted he was not spying and the materials he purchased were not secret.
- There was no way I was going across to follow Ewen Mackay to spy on his activities at the house.
- Wilkinson spied a conspiracy to resist all the evidence that this chemical was dangerous.
work that a spy does► spying the action of secretly collecting information about a person, country, or organization: · Several embassy officials had been arrested for spying. ► espionage spying. Espionage is more formal than spying: · Zakharov was charged with espionage.· The company carried out a campaign of industrial espionage against its main rival.· Double agents are quite commonplace in the world of espionage. ► surveillance activity in which the police, army, etc watch a person or place carefully because they may be connected with criminal activities: · 24-hour surveillance of the building· The police have had him under surveillance (=have been watching him)for months. ► covert operations secret military activities against an enemy: · These planes are used by British Intelligence for covert operations. to spy► spy to secretly collect information about an enemy government: · A former US diplomat has confessed to spying.spy on: · For years the satellite spied on secret weapon bases.spy for: · Philby had been spying for the Russians for several years. ► espionage the collecting of political, military, or industrial secrets from another country or organization: · Zakharov, a KGB agent, was charged with espionage.industrial espionage (=the collecting of secrets about a competing company): · The banks take precautions to prevent any attempts at industrial espionage while confidential documents are on the premises. ► be in the pay of if someone is in the pay of a country or organization, they are being paid by that country or organization to spy for them: · Before becoming President, the general was in the pay of the CIA.· There were persistent rumours that the former head of British Intelligence was in the pay of the Soviet Union. ► infiltrate to secretly join a group or organization whose principles or activities you strongly oppose, in order to find out more about them, or to harm them in some way: · The Communists effectively infiltrated the government and the political parties.· Police attempts to infiltrate neo-Nazi groups have been largely unsuccessful.· Everyone knew the organization had been infiltrated by government agents, but could not prove it. ► counterespionage the activity of trying to find out about and prevent an enemy from spying in your own country: · His novels deal with the world of spies, espionage and counterespionage.· the murder of two counterespionage officers someone who spies► spy · He was suspected of having been a spy during the war.· The job of the secret police was to hunt down spies and traitors. ► agent someone working for a government or police department who tries to get secret information about another country or organization: · Wray was filmed passing money to an enemy agent.· a book of memoirs written by a retired MI5 agent, Peter Wrightsecret agent: · He had been a secret agent of the enemy all along. ► mole someone who works inside an organization who gives secret information to someone on the outside, for example a newspaper: · The government suspects there is a mole who is leaking information to the press.· The mole was discovered to be the 25-year-old secretary of the minister. to secretly watch a person or place► watch · The thieves had obviously been watching his house and knew when he was likely to be out.· He had the feeling that he was being watched.watch somebody's movements (=watch someone as they go to different places) · Detectives have been watching Mr Heskey's movements for some time. ► spy on somebody to watch someone secretly, in order to find out information about them: · Mathers admitted he had followed Ms Evans and spied on her. ► keep a watch on if the police keep a watch on a person or place, a group of them are organized to watch that person or place continuously: · Our orders were to keep a 24-hour watch on the cottage where the men were staying. ► surveillance when people, especially the police or government officials secretly watch a place or person, especially for a long period, often using special equipment such as hidden cameras: · Television surveillance in public areas should help to make housing developments safer.surveillance camera: · Banks are installing surveillance cameras to prevent robberies.under surveillance (=being secretly watched): · The men had been under surveillance by customs officers for some time before their arrest.keep somebody/something under surveillance (=secretly watch someone or something): · The terrorists had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers. ► observation when people watch a place or person carefully for a period of time: under observation (=being watched): · A patrol car spotted us and the officers inside made it clear that we were under observation.keep somebody/something under observation (=watch someone or something): · We want that place kept under constant observation. ► a spy plane· An unmanned US spy plane had been shot down. ADVERB► on· Lili sensed that she was being spied on, but she didn't care.· He spied on Agnes, he hated to admit it.· It was my favorite wedding ever, although I think the wedding I spied on went well, too. ► out· She would spy out the lie of the land and write to him.· She enticed into her house the party Odysseus dispatched to spy out the land, and there she changed them into swine.· Certainly he would have gone down there alone to spy out the land and check on his property.· Rex spied out Sam Maggott hollering at all and sundry and making good use of his over-sized red gingham handkerchief.· He also spied out the Tomorrowman's barman.· Well, he kept taking a few sips and peeping around the door to spy out the whereabouts of the principal.· I just wish they spied out something more entertaining than water and doctors. NOUN► land· Certainly he would have gone down there alone to spy out the land and check on his property.· She enticed into her house the party Odysseus dispatched to spy out the land, and there she changed them into swine. VERB► accuse· They are being held hostage with three other peacekeeping officials after being accused of spying for the Phnom Penh Government.· He is accused of spying for more than 15 years in exchange for $ 1.4 million in cash and diamonds. ► spy out the land- Certainly he would have gone down there alone to spy out the land and check on his property.
- She enticed into her house the party Odysseus dispatched to spy out the land, and there she changed them into swine.
- Neville Chamberlain wrote that the Cabinet was a nest of intrigue, which was, considering everything, an understatement.
- Perhaps we're in the middle of a nest of spies whom Meredith-Lee was about to unmask.
- He was attacked in Sandbach after confronting a suspected burglar.
1[intransitive] to secretly collect information about an enemy country or an organization you are competing againstspy on He was charged with spying on British military bases.spy for He confessed to spying for North Korea.2[transitive] literary to suddenly see someone or something, especially after searching for them SYN spot: Ellen suddenly spied her friend in the crowd.—spying noun [uncountable]THESAURUSwork that a spy doesspying the action of secretly collecting information about a person, country, or organization: · Several embassy officials had been arrested for spying.espionage spying. Espionage is more formal than spying: · Zakharov was charged with espionage.· The company carried out a campaign of industrial espionage against its main rival.· Double agents are quite commonplace in the world of espionage.surveillance activity in which the police, army, etc watch a person or place carefully because they may be connected with criminal activities: · 24-hour surveillance of the building· The police have had him under surveillance (=have been watching him)for months.covert operations secret military activities against an enemy: · These planes are used by British Intelligence for covert operations.spy on somebody phrasal verb to watch someone secretly in order to find out what they are doing: She sent you to spy on me, didn’t she?spy something ↔ out phrasal verb1to secretly find out information about something2spy out the land British English to secretly find out more information about a situation before deciding what to do |