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sabotage
[ sab-uh-tahzh, sab-uh-tahzh ]
noun
- any underhand interference with production, work, etc., in a plant, factory, etc., as by enemy agents during wartime or by employees during a trade dispute.
- any undermining of a cause.
sabotage
/ ˈsæbəˌtɑːʒ /
noun
- the deliberate destruction, disruption, or damage of equipment, a public service, etc, as by enemy agents, dissatisfied employees, etc
- any similar action or behaviour
verb
- tr to destroy, damage, or disrupt, esp by secret means
Other Words From
- un·sabo·taged adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of sabotage1
Example Sentences
In a briefing on Tuesday, the prime minister said he may introduce measures like price controls to prevent economic sabotage.
Brittleness requires AI to learn a certain level of flexibility, but sabotage—or “adversarial attacks”—is becoming an increasingly recognized problem.
However, there is no public information about this terrorist group or about the sabotage attributed to it.
Machel died in a 1986 plane crash in nearby South Africa, an incident widely believed to have been an act of sabotage by the country’s apartheid government.
This not only was seen as election sabotage, but it pointlessly jeopardized paychecks, Medicare payments, and deliveries of needed pharmaceuticals to patients.
Extra security was also set up along the lines to monitor other signs of potential sabotage.
With Lindsay Lohan, we were watching the horror show of self-sabotage, and grappled with our role in feeding into it.
Grassroots organizing accompanied an agenda of legislative sabotage led by the Republican congressional hierarchy.
But was it necessary to try to sabotage her career and her book and spend hours of our own lives trying to make her life hell?
The Americans and the Israelis have worked to sabotage German gear that Iran has tried to purchase on the black market.
This was a simple matter when the strikers were guilty of trespass, arson, or sabotage.
Sabotage places human life—and especially the life of the only useful class—higher than all else in the universe.
And you can search that book until you are black in the face and you won't find a word in there about sabotage.
But whether you believe sabotage to be good, bad, or indifferent, really is not vital in this case except as a circumstance.
Sabotage is as broad and changing as industry, as flexible as the imagination and passions of humanity.'
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