saboteur
noun/ˌsæbəˈtɜː(r)/
/ˌsæbəˈtɜːr/
- a person who does deliberate damage to something to prevent an enemy from using it, or to protest about something
- Saboteurs blew up a small section of the track.
Oxford Collocations DictionarySaboteur is used after these nouns:- hunt
Word Originearly 20th cent.: from French, from the verb saboter ‘kick with sabots (a simple shoe), wilfully destroy’.Definitions on the go
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