If you engage in espionage for a foreign power, you are selling your country down the river.
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Espionage
//ˈɛs.pi.əˌnɑːʒ//
Synonyms for "espionage" (36 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (10)
Related words (18)
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1 entriesRelated terms
3 entriescapable of
1 entriescoordinate
2 entriesderived
9 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
96 translations across 73 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- spioenasie noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Albanian
1 entries- spiunazh noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Amharic
1 entries- ስለላ noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Arabic
2 entries- تَجَسُّس noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- جَاسُوسِيَّة noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Armenian
1 entries- լրտեսություն noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- casusluq noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Basque
1 entries- espioitza noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Belarusian
1 entries- шпіяна́ж noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Bengali
1 entries- গুপ্তচরবৃত্তি noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Bulgarian
1 entries- шпиона́ж noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Catalan
1 entries- espionatge noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 間諜活動 /间谍活动 noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 間諜活動 /间谍活动 noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Czech
1 entries- špionáž noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Danish
1 entries- spionage noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Dari
1 entries- جَاسُوسِی noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Dutch
1 entries- spionage noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Esperanto
1 entries- spionado noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Estonian
1 entries- spionaaž noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Finnish
1 entries- vakoilu noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
French
1 entries- espionnage noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Galician
1 entries- espionaxe noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Georgian
2 entries- აგენტურა noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- შპიონაჟი noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
German
1 entries- Spionage noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Greek
2 entries- κατασκοπία noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- κατασκοπεία noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Hebrew
2 entries- רִגּוּל noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- ריגול noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Hindi
2 entries- चारवृत्ति noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- जासूसी noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Hungarian
1 entries- kémkedés noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Icelandic
2 entries- njósn noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- njósnir noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Indonesian
2 entries- pengintaian noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- spionase noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- جاسوسی noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Italian
1 entries- spionaggio noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Japanese
4 entries- スパイ罪 noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- スパイ行為 noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- 諜報活動 noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- 間諜罪 noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Kazakh
1 entries- тыңшылық noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Khmer
1 entries- ចារកម្ម noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Korean
3 entries- 간첩 행위 noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- 간첩죄 noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- 스파이 행위 noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- тыңчылык noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- шпионаж noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Lao
1 entries- ຈາຣະກັມ noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Latin
1 entries- speculatio noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Latvian
1 entries- spiegošana noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Lithuanian
1 entries- žvalgyba noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Macedonian
1 entries- шпиона́жа noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Malay
1 entries- pengintipan noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Mongolian
1 entries- тагнуул noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Māori
2 entries- mahi tūtei noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- tūteitanga noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- udjasusi noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- cesûsî noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- sîxurî noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- xefnêrî noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- spionasje noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- spionasje noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Pashto
1 entries- جاسوسي noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Polish
2 entries- szpiegostwo noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- wywiad noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Portuguese
1 entries- espionagem noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Romanian
1 entries- spionaj noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Russian
1 entries- шпиона́ж noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- špijunáža noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- шпијуна́жа noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Slovak
1 entries- špionáž noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Slovene
1 entries- vohunstvo noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Spanish
1 entries- espionaje noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Swedish
2 entries- spionage noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- spioneri noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Tabasaran
1 entries- жасусвал noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Tagalog
2 entries- espiyonahe noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- pagbatyaw noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Tajik
1 entries- ҷосусӣ noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Telugu
1 entries- వేగు noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Thai
1 entries- จารกรรม noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཉུལ་ཞིབ་པ noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Turkish
2 entries- casusluk noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- espiyonaj noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Ukrainian
2 entries- шпигу́нство noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- шпіона́ж noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Urdu
1 entries- جاسُوسی noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Uyghur
1 entries- جاسۇسلۇق noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Uzbek
2 entries- josuslik noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
- shpionlik noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Vietnamese
1 entries- hoạt động tình báo noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Yakut
1 entries- үспүйүөннээһин noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Yiddish
1 entries- שפּיאָנאַזש noun (act of learning secret information through clandestine means)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
The transfer of an astral body from one physical body to another became a tool for espionage.
Source: tatoeba (3316587)
Tom wasn't put in jail for espionage.
Source: tatoeba (3722342)
The suspect committed an act of industrial espionage.
Source: tatoeba (5513269)
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