industrial espionagenoun [ U ]
uk/ɪnˌdʌs.tri.əl ˈes.pi.ə.nɑːʒ/us/ɪnˌdʌs.tri.əl ˈes.pi.ə.nɑːʒ/an occasion when one company steals secrets from another company with which it is competing
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International relations: spying and espionage
- agent
- agent provocateur
- counter-espionage
- counterintelligence
- deep state
- MI5
- MI6
- on the inside idiom
- operative
- phone tapping
- quisling
- scout
- spook
- spy
- spy on sb/sth
- tail
- tap
- the CIA
- wired up
- wiretap
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