saboteur

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  1. noun One who commits sabotage.

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  • He'll declare her a saboteur or a spy, kill her, and get promoted for it. —  Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2002
  • And you have no idea who it was Clark hesitated a split second before deciding not to mention his suspicion that the saboteur was somebody who knew something about the security arrangements and likely even had some part in them—such as one of the guardsmen. —  BEN BOVA Editor
  • After the execution of the saboteur, the other Continental crewmen pressed into service had cooperated meekly with their Cathran captors. —  Julian, May - Boreal Moon 01 - Conqueror's Moon
  • Stevens was just their figurehead, the head saboteur--which is what you would really call him They talked, and watched the Mounted Police running around with machine guns and grenades. —  135 - The Three Devils
  • Vassily was arrested in 1938 after other members of his aircraft design team, already in custody, cited his name as a saboteur. —  FSF,March2008
 

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  1. French, from saboter, to sabotage; see sabotage.
 

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