n. A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.
v. to deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful
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n.
n. Scamped work.
n. Malicious waste or destruction of an employer's property or injury to his interests by workmen during labor troubles.
n. 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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n. a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged
v. destroy property or hinder normal operations
Word Usage
"The word sabotage is storied to be from the French word for wooden shoe, sabot, to recall how French workers threw their shoes into newfangled machinery to foil the efforts of industrial revolution bosses."