| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Industrial espionage | Law | 1: An unlawful intelligence-gathering activity in which a person obtains a manufacturing or trade secret in order to make it available or in fact makes it available to a foreign official body, a foreign organization or a foreign private enterprise or the agents of any of these. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| 2: The dishonest practice of obtaining industrial secrets belonging to one's competitors by employing spies or secret agents who work in the competitor's offices and factories. Source: European Union. (references) | |||
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