saboteur
sa buh tur
- n someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
- n a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
- Departamento 50 also revealed a dream of the chief saboteur that never came off: to destroy the Panama Canal by exploding a Chilean ship in one of the locks.
- To the Arabs, they are freedom fighters in the best guerrilla tradition, skilled in the arts of the commando and the saboteur.
- But history is a potent saboteur in this part of the world and talks have collapsed before under its weight.