saboteur
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sab·o·teur
(săb′ə-tûr′)n.
One who commits sabotage.
[French, from saboter, to sabotage; see sabotage.]
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saboteur
(ˌsæbəˈtɜː)n
a person who commits sabotage
[C20: from French; see sabotage]
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sab•o•teur
(ˌsæb əˈtɜr)n.
a person who commits sabotage.
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saboteur
One who commits sabotage. See also antiterrorism; countersabotage; sabotage.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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| Noun | 1. |  saboteur - someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecksruiner, uprooter, waster, destroyer, undoer - a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones" sleeper - a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal |
| 2. | saboteur - a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader fifth column, Trojan horse - a subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage; an enemy in your midst traitor, treasonist - someone who betrays his country by committing treason |
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saboteur
noun demonstrator, rebel, dissident, hooligan, vandal, delinquent, dissenter, agitator, protest marcher The saboteurs had planned to bomb buses and offices.
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Translations
مُخَرِّب، مَن يَقوم بِعَمَلٍ تَخْريبي
-kasabotér
sabotør
szabotáló
skemmdarverkamaîur
sabotér
sabotajcı
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
saboteur
[ˌsæbəˈtɜːr] n → saboteur/euse m/f hunt saboteurCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
saboteur
n → Saboteur(in) m(f)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
saboteur
[ˌsæbəˈtɜːʳ] n → sabotatore/triceCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
sabotage
(ˈsӕbətaːʒ) noun the deliberate destruction in secret of machinery, bridges, equipment etc, by eg enemies in wartime, dissatisfied workers etc.
verb to destroy, damage or cause to fail by sabotage.
ˌsaboˈteur (-ˈtəː) noun a person who sabotages. The soldiers shot the three saboteurs.
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