Spydom
noun, slang
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 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
More examples"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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