Usually means: Stealing secrets from business competitors.
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  1. industrial espionage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. industrial espionage: Collins English Dictionary
  3. industrial espionage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. industrial espionage: Wiktionary
  5. industrial espionage: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. industrial espionage: Dictionary.com
  7. Industrial Espionage, Industrial espionage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. industrial espionage: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. industrial espionage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. industrial espionage: Encyclopedia

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  1. Third Eye's Paranormal (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (industrial espionage)

noun:  (espionage) The use of clandestine methods to acquire secret information for commercial advantage.
noun:  Spying by an employer on labor union activities of employees and on labor unions.
noun:  Spying on industrial activities for military advantage.

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