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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
saboteur
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hunt saboteur
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hunt
▪ The hunt saboteurs say they were threatened after the incident.
▪ The Hunt saboteurs bar extreme right sympathisers from its organisation.
▪ As for whether it was hunt saboteurs or home-going Christmas drunks, the station will make all possible enquiries.
▪ Read in studio Two huntsmen have been jailed for two months for knocking down a hunt saboteur with a four wheeled buggy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Anyone with a foreign accent, including refugee children, were labelled as potential saboteurs.
▪ As for whether it was hunt saboteurs or home-going Christmas drunks, the station will make all possible enquiries.
▪ For the rest of the hunting season, the saboteurs will play a cat and mouse game with the huntsmen.
▪ Hunt stewards are trying to force the saboteurs off private land on to a public footbath.
▪ The second possibility was that some fiendishly cunning saboteur was at work.
▪ Their solicitor told the court they only wanted to frighten the saboteur and they were sorry he'd been injured.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
saboteur

1912 (from 1909 as a French word in English), a borrowing of the French agent noun from sabotage (see sabotage (n.)).

Wiktionary
saboteur

n. A person who intentionally causes the destruction of property in order to hinder the efforts of his/her enemy.

WordNet
saboteur
  1. n. someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks [syn: wrecker, diversionist]

  2. a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader [syn: fifth columnist]

Wikipedia
Saboteur (disambiguation)

A saboteur is someone who commits sabotage.

It may also refer to:

  • Morituri (1965 film), a 1965 film also known as The Saboteur
  • Saboteur (card game), a card game by Frederic Moyersoen, published in 2004
  • Saboteur (film), a 1942 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock
  • "Saboteur" (short story), a 2000 short story by the Chinese author Ha Jin
  • The Saboteurs, the Australian name for the American rock band The Raconteurs
  • "Saboteur", a song by Amon Tobin from Supermodified (album)
  • "Saboteur" a song appearing on Coat of Arms (album) Swedish band Sabaton
Saboteur (film)

Saboteur is a 1942 Universal spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock with a screenplay written by Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison and Dorothy Parker. The film stars Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings and Norman Lloyd.

Saboteur (1985 video game)

Saboteur! is an action-adventure game created by Clive Townsend and published by Durell Software in 1985 for several 8-bit home computer formats.

Saboteur (1999 video game)

Saboteur was a single-player action game that was set to be released in 1999. Originally developed by Tigon Studios, the project was later handed down to Pumpkin Studios, developers of Warzone 2100. However, the project did not remain in the hands of Pumpkin Studios for long. Eidos Interactive, Saboteur's publishing company, cancelled the project with the decision to abandon the PlayStation market for the next generation of consoles. This decision cancelled Saboteur and lack of funds forced Pumpkin Studios into shutting down operations.

Saboteur (card game)

Saboteur is a mining-themed card game, designed by Frederic Moyersoen and published in 2004 by Z-Man Games.

Saboteur (short story)

"Saboteur" (2000) is a short story by the Chinese author Ha Jin.

Usage examples of "saboteur".

But a pacifist saboteur and a stowaway Middler Xi master have different ideas, which lead to an epic voyage through alternate science and philosophy.

Nixon exposed the Truman and Roosevelt administrations as having appointed known saboteur Alger Hiss to positions of influence within the government.

Baudelaire, Poe, Dream-Shakespeare, Hollywood, panto, fairy tale: Carter wears her influences openly, for she is their deconstructionist, their saboteur.

He also found a Klickitat mill hand who knew the country and whom he set off on horseback to trail the saboteurs.

Ferus had let the saboteur of the Sathan computer go, but there was no way for Palpatine to know that.

In order to take down all the forward nodes simultaneously, our saboteur would have had to open up the system somewhere downstream of the control box but upstream of where the control lines branch off to the different nodes.

Were they about to be exposed as saboteurs, or yanked out of line for further questioning by the Gorn?

He explained what he had found to be a common characteristic of the alien saboteurs and how they reacted to his probing.

Yet not on the part of the saboteur who, by displaying an authority reserved solely for just fifteen Thinkers and the Director, narrows the possibles to sixteen.

Gibbon, Voltaire, Rousseau, Shelley, Byron, Dickens, Stendhal, Samuel Butler, Ibsen, Zola, Flaubert, Shaw, Joyce -- in one way or another they are all of them destroyers, wreckers, saboteurs.

The hunt saboteur hadn't moved toward the transfer hatch that would have led both him and Boba Fett to his waiting Headhunter.

He might be denouncing Goldstein and demanding sterner measures against thought criminals and saboteurs, he might be fulminating against the atrocities of the Eurasian army, he might be praising Big Brother or the heroes on the Malabar front-it made no difference.

For one frantic instant she feared the Ssli might lie her unknown saboteur - and the cruiser depended, absolutely, on its Ssli - but its words reassured her.

Yeah, there were plenty of your kind over here in England, pretending to be Polish, Dutch, Czech, Belgian, all kinds of runaways and asylum seekers, but in reality spies and saboteurs.

Doubters and waverers, dodgers and complainers, the lazy and the shiftless were as much traitors to the cause as any spy or saboteur.