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Traducción de spy en Español:
spy
espía, n.
Ver definición en Español de espía
nombreplural spies
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espía masculino, femenino(plane/satellite/ship) (invariable adjectivebefore noun) espía(story) de espías(story) de espionajespy ring — red de espionaje
verbo intransitivo spies, spying, spied
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(watch secretly)espiarto spy on sb — espiar a algn- He often spied on her, watching from the shadows, observing her every gesture.
- A reporter has been arrested outside the home of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie for spying on the star couple with binoculars..
- To pass the time, he spies on his neighbours, watching the real-life soap opera in the building across from his.
- He was spying on Selina, watching her every move.
- These people are regularly keeping watch on them and spying on their movements.
- Mr Barrett believes the cameras are being misused, to spy on motorists parking, rather than watching out for crime.
- One of his favorite tricks is to call the people he's spying on and describe what he is observing through his telescopic lens.
- For once we didn't pretend we weren't spying on each other.
- Unions at City Hall have accused Council bosses of breaking the law by spying on employees using CCTV cameras and other means.
- Most people would agree that spying on one's neighbors is detestable.
- Jeez, you'd think I was some kind of little old lady hanging around by my window all day, spying on the neighbours.
- As one review put it, reading this book is like spying on your friends when they didn't know you were there.
- It had gotten to the point where I was starting to suspect my own friends of spying on me.
- This team is trying to make the quality of all our lives better and are certainly not going around spying on anyone.
- Social network analysis could be used for something more useful than spying on employees.
- She's there to spy on her cheating husband.
- A growing number of employers are installing cameras and software to spy on you.
- He got his family to spy on her if he was out of the house.
- The chips transmit signals and civil liberties groups fear the technology could eventually be used to spy on consumers.
- Thanks to a new range of high-tech monitoring tools, it is now easier than ever to spy electronically on your children.
- He liked the knowledge that he could spy on his neighbors if he ever needed to.
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(work as spy)espiarto spy on sth/sb — espiar algo/a algnhe spied for both sides — espiaba para ambos bandos- The Army has charged him with five offenses: sedition, aiding the enemy, spying, espionage and failure to obey a general order.
- If they are spying for a commercial competitor, the situation is different.
- The charges against them have been dropped from spying to ‘illegal information collection’, although the new charge still carries a possible jail sentence.
- People knew that the CIA was partly about spying, and they had vague, romantic notions about spies borrowed from Ian Fleming and Graham Greene novels.
- Last year's debate on intelligence reform should have centered on espionage, which we call human intelligence, or HUMINT, or spying.
- The pirate Jean Laffite and his men were paid to scout, spy, and sometimes fight for Gen. Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812.
- Burgess, Maclean, Philby and Blunt spied out of political conviction.
- If he did agree to work for the rebels and became a double agent, spying for the CAS, he'd get two paychecks.
- The Einstein dossier serves as a useful reminder of the scope of FBI spying.
- But was she really a sleeper agent recruited by her brother to spy for the Russian NKVD?
- Although these tools make it easier to spy, undercover agents still have to turn up at the right place at the right time in order to collect the information.
- Government agencies have not yet been able to prevent spying and the exchange of information by agents.
- Both men were charged with spying, destabilising society, and publishing false information.
- On this basis, they have said, Anthony Blunt was considered to have committed treason by spying for the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
- He joins a multinational corporation in order to spy for them and is persuaded to become a double agent for a rival corporation, even though he doesn't know what they do, or what they want.
- The sinister, murky world of espionage is laid bare in this revised and updated edition of Philip Knightley's powerful book about spies and spying in the 20th century.
- It's one thing to know in theory that governments always spy on each other, quite another to see set out in a memo the detail of how the spying will be done.
- Most had spied for money, but some spied out of ideological motives, and others because of grudges against their superiors.
- He spied for the Russians and is now serving a life sentence.
- A short time ago, we spoke with a defense analyst who told us about other countries that are doing some spying of their own.
verbo transitivo spies, spying, spied
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descubrirverto play 'I spy' — jugar al veo-veo- I spy with my little eye something beginning with 's' — veo, veo una cosa que empieza con 's'
- I spy with my little eye something beginning with 's' — veo, veo una cosa que empieza con 's'
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