spydom

English

Etymology

spy +‎ -dom

Noun

spydom (uncountable)

1. A group of spies
   • 1913, Wayne Whipple, The story-life of the Son of Man:

     A paid spydom watched that Nazareth family — as it watched every other working-class family in the empire...

2. (informal) The world of spies and espionage.
   • 2007 May 6, Glenn Dixon, “Busted at the Regal”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.