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US
/ˌsæbəˈtɝ/
]
[ UK /sˌæbətˈɜː/ ]
[ UK /sˌæbətˈɜː/ ]
NOUN
- someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
- a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
How To Use saboteur In A Sentence
- No doubt a couple of sleazoids will appear, maybe even a saboteur.
- German saboteurs plotted a wartime bombing campaign in Britain using exploding cans of processed peas, according to secret files made public for the first time today.
- During the boat ride, he pointed out the site of a former Maori pa, a fortified settlement hidden in the bush where warriors had hauled their canoes high up the cliffs to protect them from saboteurs.
- Police are making great savings by no longer having to send officers and helicopters out to deal with clashes between hunts and saboteurs on almost every Saturday during the winter.
- Women as perpetrators include nearly 200 women tried as spies, smugglers, couriers, and saboteurs conducting such activity as cutting telegraph wire.
- In that ruling, the justices said spies and saboteurs were violators of the law of war and so were not entitled to prisoner-of-war protections.
- The chief engineer of the pipeline said saboteurs are definitely responsible for the resultant explosion and fire.
- The object was to show how a certain sector of the economy fulfilled or overfulfilled its plan, despite wreckers, saboteurs, pessimists, and other perils.
- Criminals, saboteurs, and diehard regime loyalists must be detained and tried in a fair manner.
- The soldiers shot the three saboteurs.