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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

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the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets

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His was not the ideal position for espionage, for he was too far off to hear what they said, and the light was too dim to enable him to see what it was that Bill was holding.
Knowing the spirit of official life better than any one, he well knew that it would never pardon, any more than a school or the galleys or the army pardon, what looked like espionage or tale-bearing.
Summary: Washington [USA], August 28 (ANI): China is reportedly hiring foreigners in what is believed to be espionage recruitment using professional networking site LinkedIn.
The ICJ also rejected Pakistan's following contentions: Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (1963) does not apply in "prima facie cases of espionage" customary international law governs cases of espionage in consular relations and allows countries to make exceptions to the provisions on consular access contained in Article 36 of the Vienna Convention and that it is the 2008 Bilateral Treaty between India and Pakistan rather than Article 36 of the Vienna Convention, which regulates consular access in the case.
FILE - Morsi in a trial session CAIRO - 17 June 2019: Leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Morsi died on Monday in court after the conclusion of a trial session as he was charged of espionage for Hamas.
RAWALPINDI -- A three star army general has been sentenced to 14 years in jail, and a brigadier awarded the death sentence on charges of espionage by military courts in separate cases.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) cleared Tuesday Chinese giant telecommunication company Huawei on allegations of espionage, quoting an investigation conducted by its cybersecurity experts.
WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (KUNA) -- A Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) operative has been arrested and charged with "conspiring and attempting to commit economic espionage and steal trade secrets from multiple US aviation and aerospace companies," it was announced Wednesday.
Recent Evaluations of the Espionage Act Doctrine 221
Cambodiahas granted a pardon to an Australian filmmaker jailed in August on espionage charges for six years, a court in the capital, Phnom Penh, said on Friday.
Narasimha Rao "ditched" his father and then Kerala chief minister after the 1994 ISRO espionage case.
Espionage activities are not new and they will always remain the primary source of obtaining secret and classified information.
28 at the 13th People's Congress of Jiangsu Province, the Jiangsu People's Procuratorate Inspector-General, Liu Hua, made a public announcement concerning a major espionage case that was discovered in 2017 involving Taiwan.
Espionage poses a threat to Berlin's and the EU's security.