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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



... experience before a thunderstorm. The moral atmosphere was sullen and close. The whole world seemed irritable and mischievous. The suffragettes became extraordinarily malignant; the democratic movement went rotten with sabotage and with a cant of being "rebels"; the reactionary Tories and a crew of noisy old peeresses set themselves to create incurable confusion again in the healing wounds of Ireland, and feuds and frantic folly broke out at every point of the social and political edifice. And then ...
— Soul of a Bishop • H. G. Wells


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