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someone who works for a country’s secret service and collects secret information about foreign governments

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a small piece of electronic equipment used for secretly listening to what people are saying

verb

to hide a small piece of electronic equipment somewhere so that you can secretly listen to what people are saying

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to work secretly to help an enemy or opponent

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help that someone secretly gives to an enemy or opponent

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someone who secretly helps an enemy or opponent, for example by giving them information

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the activities and methods used by a country to stop enemy countries discovering its secrets

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someone who finds out secret information for a government but also for that government’s enemy

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attempts to discover your enemy’s political, military, or industrial secrets using secret methods. Someone who does this is a spy.

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the act of stealing secret information from a company in order to help another company

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to secretly join an organization or go into a place in order to find out information about it or damage it

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information collected about the secret plans and activities of a foreign government, enemy etc

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a government organization that collects information about the secret plans and activities of a foreign government, enemy etc

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a piece of electrical equipment that allows someone to listen secretly to people’s conversations

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a place for secretly listening to electronic communications made by other people, especially a country’s enemies

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someone who joins or works for an organization in order to give secret information about it to other people, especially to its enemies

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the protection or the safety of a country’s secrets and its citizens

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someone whose job is to do secret work, especially for a government organization

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to become a member of a group in order to find out secret information about them

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the use of special equipment to listen to and record someone’s telephone conversations

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a person who is put into a group or organization to find out information secretly

verb

to put someone in a group or organization so that they can find out information secretly

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someone who secretly helps an enemy or opponent

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someone whose job involves working for a government and finding out the secrets of other governments

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a government department that secret agents work for

verb

to secretly try to get information that someone would not want you to have

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to watch someone secretly in order to learn about their personal life or business

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someone who tries to get secret information about someone

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a spy

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someone whose job is to find out secret information about a country or an organization

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involving spies or their activities

verb

to work as a spy

to watch someone secretly so that you know everything that they do

to find out secret information about what a country or an organization is doing

verb

to use electronic equipment to secretly listen to what someone says on the telephone

noun

electronic equipment used for listening secretly to someone’s telephone conversations

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someone who tells secrets about their own country to a country that is its enemy

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a piece of electronic equipment that someone wears under their clothes to allow other people to hear their conversations secretly

verb

to hide a piece of equipment somewhere that allows conversations to be heard secretly

adjective

wearing or containing equipment which secretly lets conversations be heard or recorded

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a piece of equipment that secretly lets telephone conversations be heard or recorded

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an occasion when a wiretap is used

verb

to connect a special piece of equipment to a telephone wire that lets you listen to conversations secretly. The usual British word is tap.

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a situation in which someone gets into a place that is usually guarded, or discovers information that should be kept secret