sabotage
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7.3
- noun
- /ˈsæbəˌtɑʒ/
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sabotaje
- The government will suppress strikes and sabotage without mercy.
- acts of sabotage
- covert sabotage
- political sabotage
Well, somebody told the New York Times it's an Israeli sabotage team, the Israelis doing this.
- Well, somebody told the New York Times it's an Israeli sabotage team, the Israelis doing this.
- You've got a vacuum of comprehension based on the sabotage of our educational institutions.
- They see the sanctions, they see the sabotage, whoever was triggering the sabotage, they see the assassinations.
- It's so stupid that it almost seems like sabotage.
- Or is this like more direct sabotage?
- And it was kind of I was allowing that sabotage force to take over.
- And it is just this sabotage right now.
- Does a thing that is the most unforgivable sabotage of a young actor's career just because he could.
- Mental self sabotage, like getting up in your own head, drugs or being abused.
- For good measure, Goya's interior spreads cartoon stain red into the black garb of sabotage.
- You know, here's the thing that I have to say is I think that there is just a, a complete sabotage that people are doing for their children.
Examples
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Sir, we found and removed another sabotage device.
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Prevent and attack activities of subversion and sabotage by foreign powers aimed at Hong Kong society.
Academic text (1996) -
Its concern was with acts of violence, attacks on, and sabotage of aircraft and air navigation facilities.
Academic text (1991) -
But you're talking about internal sabotage by people in your own company.
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Instead, they initiated an open campaign of sabotage against the entire system of compulsory arbitration.
Academic text (2000) -
An appeal to wartime emergency and fear of sabotage initially masked the question of racism.
Academic text (1995) -
The Pakistan-sponsored sabotage campaign was launched with 7,000 insurgents in August 1965.
Academic text (2000) -
The investigation revealed that the fire was an act of sabotage, aimed at disrupting the operations of the factory.
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The company suffered significant losses due to acts of sabotage from competitors trying to undermine its success.
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Officials reported several incidents of sabotage during the election season, which hindered the voting process.
Synonyms
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5.8
To change something secretly to get an advantage or cause harm
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8.2
A crime of damaging another person's property on purpose
Compounds
How Harmful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sabotage comes from the French word sabot, which means 'wooden shoe'. One popular story says workers threw their sabot into factory machines or stamped on them to stop work, so sabotage came to mean deliberate damage or blocking of work.