Definition of "industrial espionage" []

• The use of clandestine methods to acquire secret information for commercial advantage (noun)

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• "We caught Ivan Egorov and his wife Alessandra passing industrial espionage secrets, computers."
• "It was, however, considerably more popular and was used by every security, private eye or industrial espionage outfit that could afford the eight-thousand-dollar price tag."