Synonyms for Espionage
ˈɛs pi əˌnɑʒ, -nɪdʒ, ˌɛs pi əˈnɑʒes·pi·onage

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1. espionagenoun

   Synonyms:
   spying

2. espionagenoun

   The act or process of learning secret information through clandestine means.

   Synonyms:
   spying

Princeton's WordNet

1. espionagenoun

   the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets

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1. List of paraphrases for "espionage":

   spy, spying, eavesdropping

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1. Merrick Garland:

   The People's Republic of China is a serious threat to our intellectual property. They represent a serious threat with respect to espionage.

2. Danny Russell:

   It is very hard for me to figure out what China could do uniquely from its consulate in Houston that it could not equally well do from its consulates in Boston, LA, or NY, from the embassy in DC or through non-official cover, it is inconceivable that shutting down a consulate will stop espionage.

3. Columbia Joe diGenova:

   Rudolph Contreras violated the canons of judicial ethics, if Rudolph Contreras knew Peter Strzok was in charge of espionage, Rudolph Contreras never should have even gotten near it.

4. Attorney General Michael Lauber:

   We have an open investigation into political espionage in Switzerland.

5. Tim Naftali:

   They wanted to move a bug. They had three more bugs, which they wanted to plant. They were also going to put a listening device in a smoke detector, this would have been a massive espionage operation had it succeeded.