spy

verb (FIND SECRETS)

/spaɪ/

Definition

C1 [I] to secretly collect and report information about the activities of another country or organization: He was arrested for spying on missile sites.Spying and espionage spy out informal › to get knowledge secretly, especially of a place: I generally like to spy out restaurants before I go to eat in them.Spying and espionage

(Definition of spy verb (FIND SECRETS) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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