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شبکه مترجمین ایران
شبکه مترجمین ایران
english
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spy on sb/sth to watch someone or something secretly, often in order to discover information about them • He was spying on her through the keyhole.
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs
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noun ADJ. enemy, government, police VERB + SPY act as, be, work as He denied acting as an enemy spy. | recruit (sb as) SPY + NOUN film, movie, novel, story, thriller | camera, plane, satellite | network, ring Counter-intelligence officers uncovered a spy ring involving twenty agents. PREP. ~ for He was a spy for the government. PHRASES a network of spies
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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spy someone whose job is to find out secret information about another country: • Stalin controlled a network of spies. • The film is basically a spy story. agent/secret agent someone who works for a government or police department in order to get secret information about another country or organization: • a secret agent working for MI5 • He is the FBI’s best undercover agent (= one who works secretly and pretends to be someone else ) . double agent someone who finds out an enemy country’s secrets for their own country but who also gives secrets to the enemy: • a former CIA double agent who also worked for the KGB mole someone who works for an organization while secretly giving information to its enemies: • A mole in the government was leaking information to the press. informer someone who secretly tells the police about criminal activities, especially for money: • Acting on information from an informer, the police raided the house. espionage the work that spies do: • He is serving a 20-year prison sentence for espionage.
Longman-Thesaurus
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spy verbs work as a spy • He died while working as a government spy. be arrested/imprisoned/shot etc as a spy • Anyone caught working with the Resistance was shot as a spy. ADJECTIVES/NOUN + spy a British/American etc spy • He was arrested on suspicion of being an American spy. a foreign spy • The activities of foreign spies have increased. an enemy spy • He gave information to enemy spies. a government spy • They thought I was a government spy. spy + NOUN a spy story/novel/movie etc • John Le Carré is famous for writing spy stories. • one of the most exciting spy movies of all time a spy ring ( also a network of spies ) (= a group of spies ) • He was well informed through his network of spies. a spy satellite/plane (= used for spying ) • The Americans have denied using spy satellites to spy on China. • The photographs were taken by spy planes. a spy chief ( also a spymaster ) • Britain's first woman spy chief • John Le Carre 's fictional spy master George Smiley
transnet.ir
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noun agent: He was a spy for another country. verb peek: We shall spy on their project.
Simple Definitions