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Definition of Guy Burgess from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Guy Burgess

/ˌɡaɪ ˈbɜːdʒəs/

/ˌɡaɪ ˈbɜːrdʒəs/

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(1911-63) a British spy who sold government secrets to the former Soviet Union. He was one of the famous Cambridge spies and escaped to Moscow with Donald Maclean in 1951.

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