Spydom

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A group of spies uncountable

    "A paid spydom watched that Nazareth family — as it watched every other working-class family in the empire..."

  2. 2
    The world of spies and espionage. informal, uncountable

    "We were seconds away from making it all the way through “Breach,” a five-hour picture about precisely how dull it is to catch one of the biggest moles in the history of spydom without submarine cars or ballpoint-pen lasers or any of the other usual tools of the trade."

Example

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"A paid spydom watched that Nazareth family — as it watched every other working-class family in the empire..."

Etymology

From spy + -dom.

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