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saboteur definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks [syn: saboteur, wrecker, diversionist]
2: a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader [syn: fifth columnist, saboteur]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, from saboter Date: 1921 one that practices sabotage

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a person who commits sabotage. Etymology: F

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(saboteurs) A saboteur is a person who deliberately damages or destroys things such as machines, railway lines, and bridges in order to weaken an enemy or to make a protest. In Britain, people who try to stop blood sports such as fox hunting are also referred to as saboteurs. The saboteurs had planned to bomb buses and offices. N-COUNT