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Meanings of defector in English

Portuguese
desertor
Catalan
desertor

A person who abandons their duty (as on a military post)

desertor

One who defects.

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Examples for "deserter"
1
Aridius thereupon sought Clovis, in the guise of a deserter from Gondebaud.
Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 06 (of 15), French
2
Upon the line of baseness,-thedeserter is placed next to the traitor.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
3
The deserter stopped for an instant, and then leaped on the horse.
A Lieutenant at Eighteen
4
The fellow Dupont quarrelled with and shot was a deserter named Connors.
Molly McDonald: A Tale of the Old Frontier
5
The king proscribes me, and brands me as a traitor and deserter.
Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
Usage of defector in English
1
That followed information from a Russian defector and a major FBI investigation.
Reuters
2
Lee Harvey Oswald, a former US marine and Soviet defector, is arrested.
The Guardian
3
They even get high-end gifts like televisions and bicycles, the defector said.
The Guardian
4
Australian full-back Greg Inglis could be the next big rugby league defector.
The Irish Times
5
I nodded, blowing smoke out through my nostrils, feeling like a defector.
The last four days of Paddy Buckley
6
He saw immediately the need to create a new structure around the defector.
The girl who kicked the hornet's nest
7
The defector said Kim was actually on a humanitarian mission to North Korea.
News.com.au
8
South Korea has said there is no evidence the returning defector was infected.
Reuters
9
North Korean defector Yeonmi Park never thought she could tell anyone her story.
Radio NZ
10
He's a foreign national, a defector from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.
Deadly Heat
11
These days Peter Weir, an Ulster Unionist defector, does precisely that.
The Irish Times
12
Official sources in Seoul named the defector in Egypt as Ambassador Jang Seung-il.
The Irish Times
13
Thae is the highest-level defector from North Korea in two decades.
Reuters
14
But that is what the 22-year-old North Korean defector has chosen to do.
The Irish Times
15
Kevin the defector laughed, as if the detective was a comedian.
It Must Be Love
16
The high-profile poisoning of defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter failed.
News.com.au
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