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Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a polity, government, effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disruption, or destruction. One who engages in sabotage is a saboteur.
noun. any underhand interference with production, work, etc., in a plant, factory, etc., as by enemy agents during wartime or by employees during a trade dispute. any undermining of a cause. verb (used with object) , sab·o·taged, sab·o·tag·ing. to injure or attack by sabotage. Synonyms: cripple, vandalize, disable. Discover More. Other Words From.
to damage or destroy something in order to prevent an enemy from using it: Rebels sabotaged the roads and bridges. sabotage verb [T] (PREVENT SUCCESS) to spoil someone's plans or efforts in order to prevent them from being successful: She tried to sabotage my chances of getting the job. sabotage. noun [ U ] an act of sabotage.
noun. /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 malicious damaging or destruction of an employer's property by workmen during a strike or the like; hence gen. any disabling damage deliberately inflicted, esp. that carried out clandestinely in order to disrupt the economic or military resources of an enemy. Also transferred, figurative, and attributive. 1910.
: to destroy or damage (something) deliberately so that it does not work correctly. They sabotaged the enemy's oil fields. The airplane crashed because it was sabotaged. 2. : to cause the failure of (something) deliberately. The lawyer is trying to sabotage the case by creating confusion. The deal was sabotaged by an angry employee.
the act of deliberately spoiling something in order to prevent it from being successful. See sabotage in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Check pronunciation: sabotage. Definition of sabotage noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
