Exact Match:
- espionage
- the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets
Synonyms:
- bugging,
- cloak-and-dagger work,
- counterespionage,
- counterintelligence,
- electronic surveillance,
- espial,
- following,
- intelligence,
- intelligence work,
- looking,
- lookout,
- military intelligence,
- note,
- notice,
- observance,
- observation,
- reconnaissance,
- regard,
- respect,
- secret police,
- secret service,
- shadowing,
- sleuthing,
- spying,
- stakeout,
- surveillance,
- tailing,
- trailing,
- viewing,
- watch,
- watching,
- wiretap,
- wiretapping,
- witnessing
Related Words:
- counterespionage
collapse - spying on the spies related words >
- stakeout
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- surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime) related words >
- bugging,
- chasing,
- cloak-and-dagger work,
- counterespionage,
- counterintelligence,
- dogging,
- electronic surveillance,
- espial,
- espionage,
- following,
- heeling,
- hounding,
- intelligence,
- intelligence work,
- military intelligence,
- observation,
- pursual,
- pursuance,
- pursuit,
- secret police,
- secret service,
- sequel,
- sequence,
- series,
- shadowing,
- spying,
- stakeout,
- surveillance,
- trailing,
- wiretap,
- wiretapping
- spying
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- the act of keeping a secret watch for intelligence purposes
- keeping a secret or furtive watch related words >
- bugging,
- cloak-and-dagger work,
- counterespionage,
- counterintelligence,
- detection,
- electronic surveillance,
- espial,
- espionage,
- following,
- intelligence,
- intelligence work,
- looking,
- lookout,
- military intelligence,
- note,
- notice,
- observance,
- observation,
- regard,
- respect,
- secret police,
- secret service,
- shadowing,
- stakeout,
- surveillance,
- tailing,
- trailing,
- viewing,
- watch,
- watching,
- wiretap,
- wiretapping,
- witnessing
- counterintelligence
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- intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism related words >
- bugging,
- cloak-and-dagger work,
- counterespionage,
- electronic surveillance,
- espial,
- espionage,
- following,
- intelligence,
- intelligence bureau,
- intelligence service,
- intelligence work,
- military intelligence,
- naval intelligence,
- observation,
- secret police,
- secret service,
- shadowing,
- spying,
- stakeout,
- surveillance,
- tailing,
- trailing,
- wiretap,
- wiretapping
- bugging,
- cloak-and-dagger work,
- counterespionage,
- counterintelligence,
- electronic surveillance,
- espial,
- espionage,
- following,
- intelligence,
- intelligence bureau,
- intelligence service,
- intelligence work,
- military intelligence,
- naval intelligence,
- observation,
- secret police,
- shadowing,
- spying,
- stakeout,
- surveillance,
- tailing,
- trailing,
- wiretap,
- wiretapping
- trailing
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- the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind related words >
- bugging,
- chase,
- chasing,
- cloak-and-dagger work,
- consecutive,
- counterespionage,
- counterintelligence,
- dogging,
- electronic surveillance,
- espial,
- espionage,
- follow,
- follow-up,
- following,
- heeling,
- hounding,
- hue and cry,
- hunting,
- intelligence,
- intelligence work,
- military intelligence,
- observation,
- prosecution,
- pursual,
- pursuance,
- pursuing,
- pursuit,
- quest,
- searching,
- secret police,
- secret service,
- seeking,
- sequel,
- sequence,
- series,
- shadowing,
- spying,
- stakeout,
- stalking,
- succeeding,
- surveillance,
- tailing,
- tracking,
- tracking down,
- wiretap,
- wiretapping
- secret agent
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- a person secretly employed in espionage for a government related words >
- CIA man,
- asker,
- catechist,
- cloak-and-dagger operative,
- counterintelligence agent,
- counterspy,
- cross-interrogator,
- cross-questioner,
- detective,
- double agent,
- espionage agent,
- examiner,
- inquirer,
- inquisitionist,
- inquisitor,
- inside man,
- intelligence agent,
- interlocutor,
- interpellator,
- interrogator,
- interrogatrix,
- interviewer,
- military-intelligence man,
- naval-intelligence man,
- operative,
- opinion-sampler,
- poller,
- pollster,
- prober,
- querier,
- querist,
- questioner,
- questionist,
- quizzer,
- reconnoiterer,
- sampler,
- scout,
- spotter,
- spy,
- spy-catcher,
- undercover man
- wiretap
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- the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information
- tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information; "The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy"; "Is this hotel room bugged?" related words >
- attend,
- attend to,
- auscultate,
- be all ears,
- bend an ear,
- bug,
- bugging,
- cloak-and-dagger work,
- cock the ears,
- counterespionage,
- counterintelligence,
- eavesdrop,
- electronic surveillance,
- espial,
- espionage,
- examine by ear,
- following,
- give attention,
- give audience to,
- give ear,
- hark,
- hear,
- hear out,
- hearken,
- heed,
- intelligence,
- intelligence work,
- intercept,
- lend an ear,
- listen,
- listen at,
- listen in,
- listen to,
- military intelligence,
- observation,
- secret police,
- secret service,
- shadowing,
- sit in on,
- spying,
- stakeout,
- surveillance,
- tailing,
- tap,
- trailing,
- wiretapping
- double agent
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- a spy who works for two mutually antagonistic countries related words >
- Benedict Arnold,
- Brutus,
- CIA man,
- Judas,
- Judas Iscariot,
- Quisling,
- archtraitor,
- betrayer,
- cloak-and-dagger operative,
- cockatrice,
- conniver,
- conspirator,
- conspirer,
- counterintelligence agent,
- counterspy,
- double-crosser,
- double-dealer,
- espionage agent,
- informer,
- inside man,
- intelligence agent,
- intrigant,
- intriguer,
- machinator,
- military-intelligence man,
- naval-intelligence man,
- operative,
- plotter,
- quisling,
- rat,
- reconnoiterer,
- schemer,
- scout,
- secret agent,
- serpent,
- snake,
- spotter,
- spy,
- spy-catcher,
- timeserver,
- traitor,
- treasonist,
- trimmer,
- turncoat,
- undercover man
- secret police
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- a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition) related words >
- Cheka,
- FBI,
- Gestapo,
- Interpol,
- MP,
- MVD,
- Mounties,
- NKVD,
- OGPU,
- RCMP,
- SP,
- Scotland Yard,
- bugging,
- cloak-and-dagger work,
- constabulary,
- counterespionage,
- counterintelligence,
- county police,
- electronic surveillance,
- espial,
- espionage,
- following,
- highway patrol,
- intelligence,
- intelligence work,
- law enforcement agency,
- military intelligence,
- military police,
- observation,
- police,
- police force,
- political police,
- posse,
- provincial police,
- riot police,
- secret service,
- security force,
- shadowing,
- shore patrol,
- special police,
- spying,
- stakeout,
- state police,
- surveillance,
- tactical police,
- tailing,
- trailing,
- troopers,
- vigilance committee,
- vigilantes,
- wiretap,
- wiretapping
- bringing to light,
- bugging,
- casual discovery,
- catching,
- chance discovery,
- cloak-and-dagger work,
- counterespionage,
- counterintelligence,
- detection,
- determination,
- determining,
- disclosure,
- discovery,
- distinguishment,
- electronic surveillance,
- espionage,
- excavation,
- exhumation,
- exposure,
- find,
- finding,
- finding out,
- following,
- intelligence,
- intelligence work,
- invention,
- locating,
- location,
- looking,
- lookout,
- lucky strike,
- military intelligence,
- note,
- notice,
- observance,
- observation,
- recognition,
- rediscovery,
- regard,
- respect,
- revelation,
- secret police,
- secret service,
- serendipity,
- shadowing,
- spotting,
- spying,
- stakeout,
- strike,
- surveillance,
- tailing,
- trailing,
- treasure trove,
- trouvaille,
- trove,
- uncovering,
- unearthing,
- viewing,
- watch,
- watching,
- wiretap,
- wiretapping,
- witnessing
- spotter
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- a worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers)
- a worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spots related words >
- Argus,
- CIA man,
- Charley,
- airplane spotter,
- beagle,
- cloak-and-dagger operative,
- counterintelligence agent,
- counterspy,
- dick,
- double agent,
- espionage agent,
- eye,
- fire patrolman,
- fire warden,
- fireguard,
- flatfoot,
- forward observer,
- gumshoe,
- gumshoe man,
- hawkshaw,
- inside man,
- intelligence agent,
- lookout,
- lookout man,
- military-intelligence man,
- naval-intelligence man,
- night watchman,
- operative,
- patrol,
- patroller,
- patrolman,
- picket,
- private eye,
- reconnoiterer,
- roundsman,
- scout,
- secret agent,
- sentinel,
- sentry,
- skip tracer,
- sleuthhound,
- spy,
- spy-catcher,
- tec,
- undercover man,
- vedette,
- watch,
- watcher,
- watchkeeper,
- watchman
- shadowing
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- the act of following someone secretly
- following surreptitiously; keeping under surveillance; "always on guard against shadowing submarines" related words >
- ambuscade,
- ambush,
- ambushment,
- blackening,
- blind,
- blocking the light,
- booby trap,
- bugging,
- chase,
- chasing,
- cloak-and-dagger work,
- clouding,
- counterespionage,
- counterintelligence,
- darkening,
- dimming,
- dogging,
- eclipsing,
- electronic surveillance,
- espial,
- espionage,
- extinguishment,
- follow,
- follow-up,
- following,
- heeling,
- hounding,
- hue and cry,
- hunting,
- intelligence,
- intelligence work,
- lurking hole,
- military intelligence,
- obfuscation,
- obnubilation,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- observation,
- obumbration,
- occulting,
- overcast,
- overclouding,
- overshading,
- overshadowing,
- overshadowment,
- prosecution,
- pursual,
- pursuance,
- pursuing,
- pursuit,
- quest,
- searching,
- secret police,
- secret service,
- seeking,
- sequel,
- sequence,
- series,
- shading,
- spying,
- stakeout,
- stalking,
- stalking-horse,
- surveillance,
- tailing,
- tracking,
- tracking down,
- trailing,
- trap,
- wiretap,
- wiretapping
- surveillance
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- close observation of a person or group (usually by the police) related words >
- accountability,
- ambuscade,
- ambush,
- ambushment,
- auspices,
- blind,
- booby trap,
- bossing,
- bugging,
- care,
- charge,
- cloak-and-dagger work,
- counterespionage,
- counterintelligence,
- custodianship,
- custody,
- eagle eye,
- electronic surveillance,
- espial,
- espionage,
- eye,
- following,
- guard,
- guardedness,
- guardianship,
- intelligence,
- intelligence work,
- intendance,
- invigilation,
- jurisdiction,
- lookout,
- lurking hole,
- military intelligence,
- monitoring,
- observance,
- observation,
- oversight,
- peeled eye,
- proctoring,
- prudence,
- qui vive,
- reconnaissance,
- responsibility,
- scrutiny,
- secret police,
- secret service,
- shadowing,
- sharp eye,
- spying,
- stakeout,
- stalking-horse,
- stewardship,
- superintendence,
- supervision,
- tab,
- tailing,
- tout,
- trailing,
- trap,
- vigil,
- vigilance,
- wariness,
- watch,
- watch and ward,
- watchful eye,
- watchfulness,
- watching,
- weather eye,
- wiretap,
- wiretapping
- spy
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- (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
- a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people; "my spies tell me that you had a good time last night"
- secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage; "spy for the Russians"
- watch, observe, or inquire secretly related words >
- CIA man,
- agent,
- be vigilant,
- be watchful,
- beagle,
- behold,
- betrayer,
- blab,
- blabber,
- blabberer,
- blabbermouth,
- bug,
- case,
- catch sight of,
- clap eyes on,
- cloak-and-dagger operative,
- counterintelligence agent,
- counterspy,
- delator,
- descry,
- detect,
- detective,
- dig out,
- discern,
- discover,
- distinguish,
- double agent,
- espionage agent,
- espy,
- eye,
- eyeball,
- ferret out,
- fink,
- fish out,
- follow,
- gaze at,
- glimpse,
- grub up,
- have a looksee,
- have in sight,
- hold in view,
- hunt out,
- identify,
- informer,
- inside man,
- intelligence agent,
- investigator,
- keep in sight,
- keep in view,
- keep under observation,
- ken,
- lay eyes on,
- look after,
- look at,
- look on,
- look upon,
- make a reconnaissance,
- make out,
- meddle,
- military-intelligence man,
- narc,
- naval-intelligence man,
- nose,
- notice,
- observe,
- operative,
- peacher,
- peek,
- peep,
- perceive,
- pick out,
- pick up,
- play the spy,
- pry,
- pry out,
- put under surveillance,
- recognize,
- reconnoiter,
- reconnoiterer,
- regard,
- root out,
- scout,
- scout out,
- search out,
- secret agent,
- see,
- sense,
- sight,
- sleuth,
- snitch,
- snitcher,
- snoop,
- spook,
- spot,
- spotter,
- spy out,
- spy upon,
- spy-catcher,
- squealer,
- stag,
- stake out,
- stool pigeon,
- stoolie,
- take in,
- talebearer,
- tattler,
- tattletale,
- telltale,
- twig,
- undercover man,
- view,
- watch,
- whistle-blower,
- witness
- operative
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- being in force or having or exerting force; "operative regulations"; "the major tendencies operative in the American political system"
- effective; producing a desired effect; "the operative word"
- of or relating to a surgical operation; "operative surgery" related words >
- Bow Street runner,
- CIA man,
- FBI,
- FBI agent,
- Federal,
- G-man,
- Secret Service,
- Sherlock Holmes,
- T-man,
- accessible,
- active,
- actor,
- agent,
- alive,
- architect,
- armipotent,
- artisan,
- author,
- authoritative,
- cloak-and-dagger operative,
- cogent,
- conductor,
- counterintelligence agent,
- counterspy,
- craftsman,
- craftswoman,
- creator,
- detective,
- doer,
- double agent,
- driver,
- dynamic,
- effective,
- effectual,
- efficacious,
- efficient,
- employable,
- employee,
- energetic,
- engineer,
- espionage agent,
- executant,
- executor,
- executrix,
- eye,
- fabricator,
- fed,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- functional,
- functionary,
- functioning,
- go,
- gumshoe,
- hand,
- handler,
- high-potency,
- high-powered,
- high-pressure,
- high-tension,
- hotel detective,
- house detective,
- house dick,
- in force,
- in power,
- inquiry agent,
- inside man,
- intelligence agent,
- investigator,
- irresistible,
- laborer,
- live,
- machinist,
- maker,
- manipulator,
- mechanic,
- medium,
- mighty,
- mighty in battle,
- military-intelligence man,
- mover,
- narc,
- naval-intelligence man,
- operant,
- operation,
- operational,
- operator,
- performer,
- perpetrator,
- pilot,
- plainclothesman,
- police detective,
- potent,
- powerful,
- practicable,
- practical,
- practitioner,
- prepotent,
- prime mover,
- private detective,
- private eye,
- private investigator,
- producer,
- puissant,
- reconnoiterer,
- revenuer,
- roustabout,
- ruling,
- runner,
- running,
- scout,
- secret agent,
- shamus,
- sleuth,
- spotter,
- spy,
- spy-catcher,
- steersman,
- store detective,
- striking,
- strong,
- subject,
- telling,
- treasury agent,
- undercover man,
- usable,
- valid,
- vigorous,
- vital,
- worker,
- workhand,
- working,
- workingman,
- workman
- lookout
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- the act of looking out
- a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings
- an elevated post affording a wide view
- a person employed to watch for something to happen related words >
- Argus,
- Cassandra,
- Charley,
- Jeremiah,
- Texas tower,
- activities,
- activity,
- admonisher,
- affair,
- affairs,
- airplane spotter,
- airscape,
- alert,
- bag,
- beacon,
- belvedere,
- bleachers,
- bridge,
- business,
- cautioner,
- cityscape,
- cloudscape,
- commerce,
- concern,
- concernment,
- conning tower,
- cupola,
- custodianship,
- custody,
- difficulty,
- eagle eye,
- employ,
- employment,
- enterprise,
- espial,
- espionage,
- fire patrolman,
- fire warden,
- fireguard,
- flagman,
- forward observer,
- function,
- gallery,
- gazebo,
- grandstand,
- guard,
- guardedness,
- guardianship,
- headache,
- interest,
- invigilation,
- labor,
- landscape,
- lighthouse,
- lighthouse keeper,
- looking,
- lookout man,
- loophole,
- matter,
- monitor,
- monitoring,
- night watchman,
- note,
- notice,
- observance,
- observation,
- observation post,
- observatory,
- occupation,
- outlook,
- overlook,
- palaver,
- panorama,
- patrol,
- patroller,
- patrolman,
- peanut gallery,
- peeled eye,
- peephole,
- perspective,
- pharos,
- picket,
- problem,
- proctoring,
- prophet of doom,
- prospect,
- prudence,
- qui vive,
- regard,
- respect,
- responsibility,
- ringside,
- ringside seat,
- riverscape,
- roundsman,
- scape,
- scene,
- scenery,
- scenic view,
- scout,
- seascape,
- sentinel,
- sentry,
- service,
- sharp eye,
- sight,
- sighthole,
- signaler,
- signalman,
- skyscape,
- spotter,
- spying,
- stewardship,
- surveillance,
- sweep,
- thing,
- top gallery,
- tout,
- tower,
- townscape,
- undertaking,
- vedette,
- view,
- viewing,
- vigil,
- vigilance,
- vista,
- ward,
- wariness,
- warner,
- watch,
- watch and ward,
- watcher,
- watchful eye,
- watchfulness,
- watching,
- watchkeeper,
- watchman,
- watchtower,
- waterscape,
- weather eye,
- witnessing,
- work,
- worry
- observation
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- the act of observing; taking a patient look
- the act of making and recording a measurement
- facts learned by observing; "he reported his observations to the mayor"
- a remark expressing careful consideration related words >
- Parthian shot,
- accordance,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- address,
- adherence,
- advertence,
- advertency,
- affirmation,
- alertness,
- allegation,
- announcement,
- answer,
- apostrophe,
- apprehension,
- assertion,
- assiduity,
- assiduousness,
- assumption,
- attention,
- attention span,
- attentiveness,
- attitude,
- averment,
- awareness,
- bugging,
- care,
- carrying out,
- climate of opinion,
- cloak-and-dagger work,
- cognizance,
- comment,
- commentary,
- common belief,
- community sentiment,
- compliance,
- conceit,
- concentration,
- concept,
- conception,
- conclusion,
- conformance,
- conformity,
- consciousness,
- consensus gentium,
- consideration,
- counterespionage,
- counterintelligence,
- crack,
- criticism,
- declaration,
- dictum,
- diligence,
- discharge,
- discovery,
- ear,
- earnestness,
- electronic surveillance,
- espial,
- espionage,
- estimate,
- estimation,
- ethos,
- examination,
- exclamation,
- execution,
- expression,
- eye,
- fancy,
- feeling,
- following,
- fulfillment,
- general belief,
- greeting,
- heed,
- heedfulness,
- heeding,
- idea,
- image,
- imago,
- impression,
- inspection,
- intellectual object,
- intelligence,
- intelligence work,
- intentiveness,
- intentness,
- interjection,
- judgment,
- keeping,
- lights,
- looking,
- lookout,
- mark,
- memory-trace,
- mental image,
- mental impression,
- mention,
- military intelligence,
- mind,
- mindfulness,
- mystique,
- note,
- notice,
- notion,
- obiter dictum,
- observance,
- opinion,
- perception,
- performance,
- personal judgment,
- phrase,
- point of view,
- popular belief,
- position,
- posture,
- practice,
- presumption,
- prevailing belief,
- proclamation,
- pronouncement,
- public belief,
- public opinion,
- question,
- reaction,
- recept,
- reflection,
- regard,
- regardfulness,
- remark,
- representation,
- respect,
- satisfaction,
- say,
- saying,
- scrutiny,
- secret police,
- secret service,
- sentence,
- sentiment,
- shadowing,
- sight,
- spying,
- stakeout,
- stance,
- statement,
- subjoinder,
- supposition,
- surveillance,
- survey,
- tailing,
- theory,
- thinking,
- thought,
- trailing,
- utterance,
- view,
- viewing,
- watch,
- watching,
- way of thinking,
- wiretap,
- wiretapping,
- witnessing,
- word
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