[sab-uh-tahzh, sab-uh-tahzh] 
noun, verb, -taged, -tag⋅ing.| 1. | 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. |
| 2. | any undermining of a cause. |
| 3. | to injure or attack by sabotage. |
| sab·o·tage (sāb'ə-täzh') n.
To commit sabotage against. [French, from saboter, to walk noisily, bungle, sabotage, from sabot, sabot; see sabot.] |
sabotage
deliberate destruction of property or slowing down of work with the intention of damaging a business or economic system or weakening a government or nation in a time of national emergency. The word is said to date from a French railway strike of 1910 when workers destroyed the wooden shoes (sabots) that held the rails in place. A few years later sabotage was employed in the United States in the form of slowdowns, particularly in situations that made a strike untenable-such as by migratory workers whose employment was temporary. During World War II anti-German resistance and partisan movements in Europe practiced effective sabotage against factories, military installations, railroads, bridges, and so on, especially in the Soviet Union. After the war, sabotage became the basic weapon of the numerous insurgent groups associated with anticolonial, separatist, and communist-backed movements
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