infiltrateverb [ I + adv/prep, T ]
uk/ˈɪn.fɪl.treɪt/us/ˈɪn.fɪl.treɪt/to secretly become part of a group in order to get information or to influence the way that group thinks or behaves:
A journalist managed to infiltrate the powerful drug cartel.
to move slowly into a substance, place, system, or organization:
At about this time the new ideas about "corporate management" had begun to infiltrate (into) local government.
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Affecting and influencing
- across-the-board
- act
- affect
- applicability
- be/fall under sb's influence/spell idiom
- bear on sth
- cross
- force
- inspiration
- instrumental
- jerk
- lead 1
- leave your/its mark on sb/sth idiom
- major league
- reverberate
- thing
- turn sb's head idiom
- unlock
- warp
- work against/for sb
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Slow and moving slowly
Arriving, entering and invading
infiltration
noun [ U ] uk/ˌɪn.fɪlˈtreɪ.ʃən/us/ˌɪn.fɪlˈtreɪ.ʃən/