noun
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A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
verb
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To act as a spy.
example
During the Cold War, Russia and America would each spy on each other for recon.
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To spot; to catch sight of.
example
I think I can spy that hot guy coming over here.
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To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
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To explore; to see; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
Examples of spy in a Sentence
Tell me you won't spy on our past!
This is the first lesson every good spy knows.
You could spy on anyone; anywhere!
Come see me, he texted his spy chief.
Let's cut out this spy stuff and talk about the real world.
Even our spy does not know the source of magic that makes the Springs flow pure with life.
He'd send her in to spy on his enemies.
In India Yama, the god of Death, is assumed, like Maui, to have been the first to "spy out the path to the other world."
The spy reported that the French, after crossing the bridge at Vienna, were advancing in immense force upon Kutuzov's line of communication with the troops that were arriving from Russia.
He gave new information about the continental career of the Young Pretender in Pickle the Spy (1897), an account of Alastair Ruadh Macdonell, whom he identified with Pickle, a notorious Hanoverian spy.
He's a spy for Czerno.
I wouldn't be a good spy chief if I killed my sources.
The Spey or Spy tower, the most important fortress on the city wall, guarded the south gate close to the river, but it was taken down early in the 19th century.
Either Dad or Denton had sent him to spy on her.
She'd make a great tool to use against any enemies he wanted to spy on, he admitted.
Armed with this and the false report of a spy, who charged the wife of Desmoulins with conspiring for the escape of her husband and the ruin of the republic, Fouquier-Tinville by threats and entreaties obtained from the jury a sentence of death.
The handsome and accomplished youth, whose doings were eagerly reported by the English ambassador at Florence and by the spy, John Walton, at Rome, was now introduced by his father and the pope to the highest Italian society, which he fascinated by the frankness of his manner and the grace and dignity of his bearing.
She came into the room, glancing over her shoulder like a spy on over time.
Still his position was most delicate, especially when the betrothal between the grand-duke Peter and Sophia of AnhaltZerbst (afterwards Catharine II.) was carried through against his will, and Elizabeth of Holstein, the mother of the bride, arrived in the Prussian interests to spy upon him.
He consolidated and increased the estates of the church, exercised the powers of a count, denounced simony and initiated financial reforms. The presence of this powerful and active personality, who was moreover a close friend of the emperor, was greatly resented by the Saxon duke, Bernard II., who regarded him as a spy sent by Henry into Saxony.
He was the syncellus (cell-mate, the confidential campanion assigned to the patriarchs, sometimes little more than a spy; see Syncellus) or private secretary of Tara(u)sius, patriarch of Constantinople (784-806), after whose death he retired to a convent, and wrote his Chronicle of events from Adam to Diocletian (285).
At Arlington Heights there are several wellknown sanatoriums. Spy Pond (about loo acres) is one of the prettiest bodies of water in the vicinity of Boston.
It has been thought by Macaulay and others that Ferguson led the English government to believe that he was a spy in their interests, and that his frequent escapes from justice were due to official connivance.
Secret numbers; like military stuff or spy stuff?
Your predecessor, Czerno, had no spy networks.
So long as they didn't put out a hit on one another, they could decimate each other at their own battles, lie, cheat, spy, steal, anything and everything.
Jenn, I can't interrogate or spy on every one of my vamps!
Speaking of Bond, this film does seem to smell a little of a spy caper.
In Polonius we see an accomplished spy and a trusted courtier whose service to both Kings has been regarded as valuable.
Iraqi gunners have shot down unmanned Predator spy drones.
The book's high points are sections relating to what the authors call atomic espionage and the CP Washington spy apparatus.
In turn, Scott introduces Robinson to the dazzling world of espionage and high-tech spy gadgetry.
He finds his former interrogator who says he knew all along he wasn't a spy.
Q, the eccentric inventor of British spy gadgets in the James Bond movies, would be proud of that Moscow rock.
Do not nag about food, spy on your friend or get drawn into becoming some form of monitor or control.
Ode to Ben I couldn't leave without singing an ode to Ben I couldn't leave without singing an ode to LG's new Editor, our resident Russian spy.
Anybody who tries to cheat them, steal from them or spy on them can expect immediate retribution.
They can even make their own I Spy picture riddle.
The OKO spy satellite system reports multiple US missile launches.
Charles Smith was appointed Captain of Spy, one of the new sloops building at Chatham.
Don Adams, the comedian who starred in Sixties spy spoof Get Smart, has died at the age of 82.
He claimed that Julius had given atom bomb secrets that he in turn passed to Harry Gold, a convicted Soviet spy.
The hip-hop star believes he is the perfect person to replace Pierce Brosnan as the suave spy.
It is owing to his information, again, that we can cause the doomed spy to carry false tidings to the enemy.
A picture attached to the statement showed two masked men dressed in black standing behind a kneeling Russian spy.
Big time / Number one / Overcome by fumes / I spy / Genuine reply / Sometimes / Ripped in two / Who?
Yours, Production Spy 19th June 2005 Some sample storyboards have been uploaded.
He played three different roles in the third series of the spy thriller series Danger Man.
None of these aims were attained; for the trial, which turned on the evidence of the police spy Nastic (already chief witness in the doubtful Cettinje bomb trial of 1908) degenerated into a public scandal, owing to the conduct of the judges and public prosecutor, and rallied Croat public opinion in defence of the S3 Serb victims. Serbo-Croat solidarity became still more apparent when the Austrian historian Dr. Friedjung, in the Neue Freie Presse of March 25 1909, openly charged the leaders of the Serbo-Croat coalition with being in the pay of Serbia.
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