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/ˌɪntərsˈɛpʃən/ /ˌɪnərsˈɛpʃən/ Listen

Interception

noun

The act of intercepting; preventing something from proceeding or arriving. "He claimed that the interception of one missile by another would be impossible"

(American football) the act of catching a football by a player on the opposing team.

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"Interception" Quotes from Famous Books

... which he enforced both in the payment and disbursement of the revenue, relieved the people from the irregular imposts to which they had been subject, in order to make up the deficiencies arising from the interception, by the pashas, of the tributes of distant provinces, and the peculation which had long reigned unchecked at the seat of government—while the sums thus rendered disposable were laid out chiefly in improving the internal communications, and strengthening ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXII. - June, 1843.,Vol. LIII. • Various

... It needed no such interception of a letter in the yard of a tavern to convince Cromwell at last that Charles could not be trusted even in a negotiation for his own benefit. All the while that he had been treating with Cromwell and Ireton, in the sense of the Army Proposals, with ...

— The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649 • David Masson

Words linked to "Interception" : American football, catch, snatch, grab, snap, bar, American football game, intercept, prevention