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n. - Destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty. Secret activities that are intended to damage or destroy the power or influence of a government or established system.

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  • Murray was jailed for subversion.
  • The big city's subversion of rural innocence
  • The safeguard against subversion is in the calibre of vigilance of the directors.
  • I would answer that the likelihood of subversion is the same as it would be in any of our universities or in a big company.
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