infiltrator
See also: infiltratör
English
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From infiltrate + -or.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]infiltrator (plural infiltrators)
- One who infiltrates an organization or territory; an undercover or covert agent.
- 1981, Terrence Prittie, Whose Jerusalem?, page 72:
- Sometimes Israelis were attacked by Arab infiltrators, and hardly a month went by without a West Jerusalemite either being killed or wounded.
- 2015, Roger K. Baer, An American Journey, →ISBN:
- Suddenly, one of the cadre appeared from out of the darkness. "Hello, soldier", he said. "Do you have a light?” “Sure,” Jack replied, digging into his pocket for a book of matches. “Soldier! You are dead!” exclaimed the cadre. Jack had failed to challenge the infiltrator. The password was “Bronx”, the counter password was “Bombers”.
- 2019 January 20, Sarah El Sirgany and Bianca Britton, “Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir blames infiltrators for anti-government protest deaths”, in CNN[1]:
- Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir blamed infiltrators for the recent deaths of anti-government protesters a speech Sunday while vowing to respect the will of the people in the 2020 elections.
- 2019 April 12, James Griffiths and Manveena Suri, “Outrage over BJP promise to ‘remove every single infiltrator’ from India”, in CNN[2]:
- “We will remove every single infiltrator from the country, except Buddha, Hindus and Sikhs,” Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah told supporters in West Bengal on Thursday.
Synonyms
[edit]- (one who infiltrates an organization or territory): informant, narc, spy, plant, provocateur
Translations
[edit]one who infiltrates
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