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  • 11sabotage — /ˈsæbətaʒ / (say sabuhtahzh) noun 1. malicious injury to work, tools, machinery, etc., or any underhand interference with production or business, by enemy agents during wartime, by employees during a trade dispute, etc. 2. any malicious attack on …

  • 12sabotage — [20] The etymological idea underlying sabotage is of ‘clattering along in noisy shoes’. For its ultimate ancestor is French sabot, a word of unknown origin which means ‘clog’. From it was derived saboter ‘walk along noisily in clogs’, hence (via… …

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  • 13sabotage — sab•o•tage [[t]ˈsæb əˌtɑʒ[/t]] n. v. taged, tag•ing 1) deliberate damage of equipment, materials, etc., or underhand interference with production or work, as by employees during a trade dispute 2) destruction of property or obstruction of public… …

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  • 14sabotage — Wilful and malicious physical damage or injury to physical property. Burns v United States, 274 US 328, 71 L Ed 1077, 47 S Ct 650; State v Moilen, 140 Minn 112, 167 NW 345, 1 ALR 331. The malicious damage or injury to the property of an employer… …

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  • 15Counterproductive work behavior — (CWB) is employee behavior that goes against the goals of an organization.[1] These behaviors can be intentional or unintentional and result from a wide range of underlying causes and motivations. It has been proposed that a person by environment …

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  • 16Minor sabotage — Kotwica graffito painted by Szare Szeregi on a monument at Warsaw s Union of Lublin Square …

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  • 17Norwegian heavy water sabotage — Part of World War II The Vemork Hydroelectric Plant in 1935. The heavy water was …

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  • 18Female Sabotage — is an evolutionary theory regarding the propensity of certain females to select burdened males of their species for mating.HistorySoon after Charles Darwin published his theory of Natural Selection, he was faced with a puzzle. If natural… …

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  • 191971 Harco work-in — The 1971 Harco work in was an action undertaken by workers at a steel plant in Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia. The work in was the culmination of a protracted industrial dispute between the owners of Harco Steel and the workers at the… …

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  • 20PALMAḤ — (abbreviation for peluggot maḥaẓ; assault companies ), the permanently mobilized striking force of the haganah and later, until its dissolution, part of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The Palmaḥ was established by an emergency order of the… …

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