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spydom en · NOUN

Etymology

From spy + -dom.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A group of spies
    • A paid spydom watched that Nazareth family — as it watched every other working-class family in the empire... 1913, Wayne Whipple, The story-life of the Son of Man:
  2. (informal, uncountable) The world of spies and espionage.
    • We were seconds away from making it all the way through “Breach,” a five-hour picture about precisely how dull it is to catch one of the biggest moles in the history of spydom without submarine cars or ballpoint-pen lasers or any of the other usual tools of the trade. 2007 May 6, Glenn Dixon, “Busted at the Regal”, in New York Times: