- 1the 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. Wordfinderprotestcivil disobedience, demonstrate, hunger strike, march, occupy, placard, protest, riot, sabotage, uprising Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivedeliberate, economic, industrial, … sabotage + nounattempt, attack, campaign, … prepositionsabotage of phrasesan act of sabotage See full entry See related entries: Protest
- 2the act of deliberately spoiling something in order to prevent it from being successful Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivedeliberate, economic, industrial, … sabotage + nounattempt, attack, campaign, … prepositionsabotage of phrasesan act of sabotage See full entry Word Originearly 20th cent.: from French, from saboter ‘kick with sabots (a simple shoe), wilfully destroy’.
sabotage
nounBrE BrE//ˈsæbətɑːʒ//; NAmE NAmE//ˈsæbətɑːʒ//
[uncountable] ProtestCheck pronunciation: sabotage
