spydom
nounEtymology From spy + -dom.
1
A group of spies
- A paid spydom watched that Nazareth family — as it watched every other working-class family in the empire...1913, Wayne Whipple, The story-life of the Son of Man:
2
Informal The world of spies and espionage.
- We were seconds away from making it all the way through “Breach,” a five-hour picture about precisely how dull it is to catch one of the biggest moles in the history of spydom without submarine cars or ballpoint-pen lasers or any of the other usual tools of the trade.2007 May 6, Glenn Dixon, “Busted at the Regal”, in New York Times: