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Meaning of spyware | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

Programs that surreptitiously monitor and report the actions of a computer user.

Internet, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“In the end of the 90s we call^([sic]) this software spyware, there was a term for it, and now we don't use this term anymore because most of the software that we use is spyware […]”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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