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Sabotage   /sˈæbətˌɑʒ/   Listen
noun
Sabotage  n.  
1.
(a)
Scamped work.
(b)
Malicious waste or destruction of an employer's property or injury to his interests by workmen during labor troubles.
2.
Any surreptitious destruction of property or obstruction of activity by persons not known to be hostile; in war, such actions carried out behind enemy lines by agents or local sympathisers of the hostile power.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Sabotage" Quotes from Famous Books



... shifted to fights between them for jurisdiction over dues-paying members. Battles on the waterfront, assassination and counter-assassination by gun-toting goon squads dominated by gangsters, industrial sabotage, frays between pickets and scabs—all ...
— Mercenary • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... thought it looked bad for Baker, too. Some papers accused him openly of attempting to sabotage the nation's research program. Wily and his fellows, and Landrus, were commended for catching this defection before ...
— The Great Gray Plague • Raymond F. Jones


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