sabotage
noun/ˈsæbətɑːʒ/
/ˈsæbətɑːʒ/
[uncountable]- the act of doing deliberate damage to equipment, transport, machines, etc. to prevent an enemy from using them, or to protest about something
- an act of economic/military/industrial sabotage
- Police investigating the train derailment have not ruled out sabotage.
- They conducted a campaign of economic sabotage.
- The fire may have been an act of sabotage.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deliberate
- economic
- industrial
- …
- attempt
- attack
- campaign
- …
- sabotage of
- an act of sabotage
- the act of preventing something from being successful or being achieved, especially deliberatelyOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- deliberate
- economic
- industrial
- …
- attempt
- attack
- campaign
- …
- sabotage of
- an act of sabotage
Word Originearly 20th cent.: from French, from saboter ‘kick with sabots (a simple shoe), wilfully destroy’.
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