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Definition of Sabotage
1. Verb. Destroy property or hinder normal operations. "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war"
Specialized synonyms: Derail
Generic synonyms: Disobey
2. Noun. A deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged.
Definition of Sabotage
1. n. Scamped work.
Definition of Sabotage
1. Noun. A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction. ¹
2. Noun. (military) An act or acts with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the national defense of a country by willfully injuring or destroying, or attempting to injure or destroy, any national defense or war materiel, premises, or utilities, to include human and natural resources'''JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms'''.. ¹
3. Verb. to deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sabotage
1. to destroy maliciously [v -TAGED, -TAGING, -TAGES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sabotage
Literary usage of Sabotage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Price of Oil: Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights Violations in by Bronwen Manby (1999)
"sabotage SPDC claimed in 1996 that sabotage accounted for more than 60 percent
of all oil spilled at its facilities in Nigeria, stating that the percentage ..."
2. An Introduction to Computer Security: The Nist Handbook by Barbara Guttman (1996)
"Martin Sprouse, author of sabotage in the American Workplace, reported that the
motivation for sabotage can range from altruism to revenge: As long as ..."
3. Current Social and Industrial Forces by Lionel Danforth Edie (1920)
"341-346) THE word [sabotage] first came into use among the organized French workmen,
... But the tactics of these syndicalists, and their use of sabotage, ..."
4. Readings in American Democracy by Thames Ross Williamson (1922)
"Scope of the term sabotage. Vincent St. John on sabotage. How the IWW use the
strike and sabotage. government, you mean the United States government? ..."
5. American Syndicalism: The I. W. W. by John Graham Brooks (1913)
"Like the term "direct action," if one is inclined to violence, sabotage readily
lends itself to extreme measures. In the thick of a desperate and losing ..."
6. American Syndicalism: The I. W. W. by John Graham Brooks (1913)
"Like the term "direct action," if one is inclined to violence, sabotage readily
lends itself to extreme measures. In the thick of a desperate and losing ..."
7. American Labor Unions by Helen Marot (1914)
"CHAPTER XVI sabotage Definitions—Not new idea—Not confined to strikes or labor union
... IN the introduction to a little book by Emile Pouget on " sabotage ..."
8. American Labor Unions by Helen Marot (1914)
"r CHAPTER XVI sabotage Definitions—Not new idea—Not confined to strikes or labor
... IN the introduction to a little book by Emile Pouget on " sabotage ..."
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