saboteur

Definition of saboteur

Nouns

someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
Synonyms:
diversionist, wrecker
Types:
sleeper
a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal
Type of:
destroyer, ruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster
a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
Synonyms:
fifth columnist
Type of:
traitor, treasonist
someone who betrays his country by committing treason

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