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  • noun military The process of exiting an area (usually behind enemy lines or in enemy territory).
  • noun civil engineering A method for managing storm water runoff.

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Examples

  • Success was to be defined as the exfiltration of Bin Ladin out of Afghanistan.28 A meeting of principals was scheduled for May 29 to decide whether the operation should go ahead.

    Think Progress » Report: Saddam and Al Qaeda Enemies, Not Collaborators 2006

  • In the sensitive areas where attempts at 'exfiltration' are insistent the vigilance is sharp and every day someone, somewhere along the nine hundred miles of the Frontier, dies, a worn coat puckered by a ballet and a hand going out to break the fall of the living body that is dead before it meets the ground; and there is special leave for the man who shot him down.

    The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968

  • The article also notes that despite the film's suggestion that Iraqi scientists became sacrificial lambs during their "exfiltration" from the country, an intelligence insider told us: "Something like this, if it was going on, wouldn't have been canceled for this reason."

    FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2010

  • When Clinton placed responsibility upon the person responsible for the exfiltration of the data, as opposed to Wikileaks itself, she may have tacitly ceded that the networked world that we live in at present means that once information is shared, it's extremely difficult, if not impossible, to control its spread.

    Alexander Howard: Secretary Clinton doubles down on Internet freedom at the State Department Alexander Howard 2011

  • When Clinton placed responsibility upon the person responsible for the exfiltration of the data, as opposed to Wikileaks itself, she may have tacitly ceded that the networked world that we live in at present means that once information is shared, it's extremely difficult, if not impossible, to control its spread.

    Alexander Howard: Secretary Clinton doubles down on Internet freedom at the State Department Alexander Howard 2011

  • Although the film suggests that the blowing of Valerie's cover led directly to the shutdown of the Iraqi scientist exfiltration, an intelligence insider told us: "Something like this, if it was going on, wouldn't have been canceled for this reason."

    Larry C. Johnson: Washington Post Editors Continue Smearing the Wilsons Larry C. Johnson 2010

  • Although the film suggests that the blowing of Valerie's cover led directly to the shutdown of the Iraqi scientist exfiltration, an intelligence insider told us: "Something like this, if it was going on, wouldn't have been canceled for this reason."

    Larry C. Johnson: Washington Post Editors Continue Smearing the Wilsons Larry C. Johnson 2010

  • Although the film suggests that the blowing of Valerie's cover led directly to the shutdown of the Iraqi scientist exfiltration, an intelligence insider told us: "Something like this, if it was going on, wouldn't have been canceled for this reason."

    Larry C. Johnson: Washington Post Editors Continue Smearing the Wilsons Larry C. Johnson 2010

  • There is no question that bad actors, from criminals and terrorists, to those involved in massive data exfiltration from

    Susan Landau: Wrong Direction on Privacy 2010

  • Although the film suggests that the blowing of Valerie's cover led directly to the shutdown of the Iraqi scientist exfiltration, an intelligence insider told us: "Something like this, if it was going on, wouldn't have been canceled for this reason."

    Larry C. Johnson: Washington Post Editors Continue Smearing the Wilsons Larry C. Johnson 2010

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