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Definition: Saboteur |
SaboteurNoun1. Someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks. 2. A member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction. In war, the word is used to describe the activity of an individual or group not associated with the military (such as a foreign agent or an indigenous supporter), in particular when actions results in the destruction or damaging of a productive or vital facility, such as equipment, factories, dams, public services, or supplies storage. Unlike acts of terrorism, acts of sabotage do not have a primary objective of causing casualties (but does not exclude this). Saboteurs are usually classified as unlawful enemy combatants.
The name derives from the early industrial age, when powered looms could be damaged by the wooden shoes (known in French as sabots) of the displaced weavers (proto-saboteurs) being thrown into the machinery. Literally it means, "to clatter in sabots".
One of the tasks of security guards is the prevention and detection of sabotage.
See also: guerrilla warfare, terrorism
External Links, Resources, and References
- Central Intelligence Agency sabotage manual
- Ozymandias Sabotage Handbook
- Employee Sabotage
- Brian Martin, Sabotage, Nonviolence versus Capitalism [PDF]
Sabotage is also the name of an early Black Sabbath album, see Sabotage (album).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sabotage."
Synonyms: SaboteurSynonyms: diversionist (n), fifth columnist (n), wrecker (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Saboteur |
| Non-English Usage: "Saboteur" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (bungler, saboteur), German (saboteur). |
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Movie/TV Titles | American Saboteur (1943) Saboteur (1942) | |
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| "Saboteur" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Saboteur" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
saboteur | 10 |
ha jin saboteur | 5 |
by ha jin saboteur | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "saboteur"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sabotator, diversant. (various references) | |
Arabic | المخرب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | саботьор (wrecker), диверсант. (various references) | |
Chinese | 坏分子. (various references) | |
Czech | sabotér. (various references) | |
Farsi | خرابکار (Subversive). (various references) | |
French | saboteur. (various references) | |
German | Saboteur. (various references) | |
Greek | κωλυσιεργόσ (obstructionist, stone-waller), σαμποτέρ, δολιοφθορέας, δολιοφθορεύσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחבל (destroyer, terrorist), חתרן (subverter, underminer). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szabotáló. (various references) | |
Indonesian | penyabot. (various references) | |
Italian | sabotatore. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | サボタージ" (checksum, daylight savings time, samarium, Samuel, somersault turn, sum, summarize, summary, summer, summer house, summer resort, summer school, summer stock, summer wear, summer wool, summit, support, supporter, underground publishing), 妨業" . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぼうぎょうい", サボタージい". (various references) | |
Korean | 파괴 활동가. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aboteursay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sabotador. (various references) | |
Romanian | sabotor (wrecker), diversionist (wrecker). (various references) | |
Russian | саботажник, диверсант (sab). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | saboter. (various references) | |
Spanish | saboteador. (various references) | |
Swedish | sabotör. (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้ก่อวินาศกรรม. (various references) | |
Turkish | sabotajcı (wrecker), kundakçı (arsonist, fire raiser, firebug, goon, incendiary). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | саботажник, диверсант. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người phá ngầm, người phá hoại (destroyer, wrecker). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "saboteur": saboteurs. (additional references) | |
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"Saboteur" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sabateur, sabotuer, subbutteo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "saboteur" (pronounced sa'buter") |
| 3 | -u t er" | deter, restaurateur. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: arbutes, boaster, boaters, borates, bursate, obtuser, rebatos, robusta, rubatos, sorbate, tabours. | |
-2 letters: aborts, abuser, arbute, arouse, barest, baster, beauts, boarts, boater, borate, bourse, breast, brutes, burets, bursae, buster, buteos, oaters, obtuse, orates, ouster, outers, rebato, rebuts, robust, routes, rubato, sorbet, souter, stoure, strobe, tabers, tabors, tabour, tubers, turbos, urates. | |
-3 letters: abets, abort, about. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-o-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: absoluter, breakouts, obturates, outbraves, outbreaks, saboteurs, subrogate, tabourers, tabourets. | |
+2 letters: abductores, arboretums, hereabouts, obituaries, objurgates, rouseabout, subcordate, subrogated, subrogates, tambourers. | |
+3 letters: burgomaster, carburetors, construable, houseboater, roundtables, rouseabouts, subcategory, subordinate, supportable, tambourines, thereabouts, unabsorbent, unobservant, whereabouts. | |
+4 letters: ambidextrous, ambulatories, beardtongues, boatbuilders, burgomasters, carburetions, carburettors, counterblast, houseboaters, obdurateness, prosecutable, rambouillets, subeditorial, suberization, subordinated, subordinates, surmountable. | |
+5 letters: antibourgeois, backcountries, battlegrounds, blabbermouths, brachypterous, breakthroughs, claustrophobe, counterblasts, elucubrations, equilibrators, flutterboards, insubordinate, insupportable, neuroblastoma, overambitious, perambulators, perturbations, protuberances, subcategories, subcategorize, subcontracted, subcontraries, suberizations, subgeneration, subordinately, subordinative, subterraneous, subventionary, troublemakers, tubocurarines, turbochargers, unsupportable. | |
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