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spy English

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spy Noun

— A spy is a person whose job is to get secret information. James Bond is a famous spy from the books by Ian Fleming. — A spy is a person who watches other people secretly. The princess was concerned that a spy with a camera would take photos when she went near the pool.

spy Verb

— To spy is to gather information secretly. He was not a rich businessman, he was really spying for the CIA. — To spy is to watch someone secretly. He spied on the people who entered the Russian embassy. — To spy is to see something. I thought I could spy someone on top of the mountain.

spy

— noun (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors — verb watch, observe, or inquire secretly — verb (= descry) catch sight of — verb (= sight) catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge — verb secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage spy for the Russians — noun a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people my spies tell me that you had a good time last night

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Simple sentences

You aren't a spy, are you?
I know you're a spy.
White was denounced to the police as a spy.
The secretary proved to be a spy.
The man was arrested as a spy.
He believes that there is a spy among us.
The investigation revealed him to be a spy.
He was under suspicion of being a spy.
She was suspected of being a spy.
Watch out! A police spy is snooping around.
He's here to spy on us.
The spy burned the papers.
One of them is a spy.

Movie subtitles

General Thatcher, and his chief spy, Captain Anderson.
The order is to retreat, but before we do, shoot the spy!
Whenever I spy a beautiful dame, I move in.
And how dare you bribe my man to spy on me.
I've been on hot brick s all these months, ever since the row started and dawker began to spy on me.
YOU SPY ON HIM?
YOU NO SPY ON HIM?
HE'S A SPY AND I'M A SPY.
Sounds like a spy story.
You're still sticking to your penny novelette spy story.
The Air Ministry has got a new thing a lot of people are interested in. But they are positive that no papers are missing about it. that would be of any use to a spy.
I spy a native.
There is said to spy on you.
You want me to spy on the Arabs?
The doctor is a spy.
She's here to spy on you.
I sent her here to spy on you.
The doc is a spy.
It's like a child's spy notebook, right?
A spy.
He just wants to spy on us!
So you wish me to become a spy.
It is now my duty to point out to you that the profession of a spy is the most ignoble calling on earth.
What a charming evening we might have had. if you hadn't been a spy, and I a. traitor.
You have a very faulty memory for a spy.
YOU POLICE SPY!
This is spy stuff.
You spy on him?
No spy on him?
But they are positive that no papers are missing about it. that would be of any use to a spy. I'm certain about it.
It's not nice to spy on classmates, Fermier.
An awful little spy!
He's a Yankee spy.
You'll tell him nothing! He's a spy! I am not a spy.
Listen, you insignificant, square-toed, pimple-headed spy!
Well, it's an article. It's ready for publication in Spy.

News and current affairs

Since the April 2001 US-China spy-plane crisis, when China demanded an apology and US President Bush refused to give one, the Bush administration has been alienating the Chinese.
Today, although Mao's socialist economy is shrinking, his spy networks remain as potent as ever.
Under his father's tutelage, Zeng Qinghong learned to use spy networks to entrench Communist and personal power.
The name itself makes it a winner, and the presidents can enjoy watching the fireworks between suave British spy Bond (Sean Connery) and his fetching Russian KGB counterpart Tatiana (Daniela Bianchi).
Today, Japanese spy satellites closely observe North Korea's nuclear sites.
Well, at least American spy agencies seem to have kept full track of the behind-the-scenes communications - in Berlin and beyond.
The problem is not that countries spy on each other (they all do).
The new Franco-German push for an intelligence-sharing agreement with the US is probably difficult to put into practice, especially considering that spy services operating around the world are not always fully controllable.
Leftovers from the past - conspiracy theories, mistrust, spy-hunting, and embargoes on technological exchanges - should be consigned to the past.
Australia has established a base for marines in Darwin and another for unmanned spy planes on the Cocos Islands.
It is named after the hero of bad Soviet-era spy novels, a figure who was also the butt of many underground jokes.
Perhaps it takes an ex-KGB spy for a Kremlin ruler to play diplomatic poker with skill.
Even as he hosted Kim in Moscow, Russian diplomats in Pyongyang were helping to protect an American spy in North Korea.
But a spy's stock-in-trade is recruiting and nurturing collaborators.
But doubts have crept in - and not only since the revelations of government agencies' use of the Internet to spy on us, our leaders, and one another.
Later it claimed that the South Korean jet was on an American spy mission.
In 1950, Kundera, then a 20-year-old Communist, reportedly denounced to the criminal police as a Western spy a man he had never met - a friend of his friend's girlfriend.
Among non-democracies, China had the Bo Xilai scandal, which was worthy of a spy novel, with illicit affairs, rampant corruption, murder, and a senior police official's dramatic quest for asylum in a US consulate.
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