| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | es·pi·o·nage |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   s p - -näzh , -n j |
| NOUN: | The act or practice of spying or of using spies to obtain secret information, as about another government or a business competitor. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French espionnage, from espionner, to spy, from Old French espion, spy, from Old Italian spione, of Germanic origin. See spek- in Appendix I.
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