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COUNTERESPIONAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does counterespionage mean?
• COUNTERESPIONAGE (noun)
The noun COUNTERESPIONAGE has 1 sense:
1. spying on the spies
Familiarity information: COUNTERESPIONAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spying on the spies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("counterespionage" is a kind of...):
counterintelligence (intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism)
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