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/sˈæbətˌɑʒ/ Listen

noun

Sabotage n.

(a)

Scamped work.

(b)

Malicious waste or destruction of an employer's property or injury to his interests by workmen during labor troubles.

Any surreptitious destruction of property or obstruction of activity by persons not known to be hostile; in war, such actions carried out behind enemy lines by agents or local sympathisers of the hostile power.

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Etymology of 'Sabotage'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sabotage" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the business and the owners would be making nothing. But I declined to let my actions be governed by envy. The Ten Commandments forbid covetousness. The Golden Rule also forbade my practicing sabotage. And I have never tried to find a better guide than the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule. The test of my misconduct would have come when, having cleverly destroyed their profits, I found them quitting in discouragement, closing up the business and throwing us ...

— The Iron Puddler • James J. Davis