Noun: saboteur ,sa-bu'tur or ,sa-bu'tûr
- Someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
"The saboteur planted false information to mislead investigators";
- wrecker, diversionist
- A member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
"The government feared that saboteurs were undermining national security";
- fifth columnist
Derived forms: saboteurs
Type of: destroyer, ruiner, traitor, treasonist, undoer, uprooter, waster
Part of: fifth column, Trojan horse
Encyclopedia: Saboteur