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Meanings of fifth columnist in English

Catalan
quintacolumnista

A member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader.

quintacolumnista
Usage of fifth columnist in English
1
The IRA was right about there being a fifth columnist, but wrong about his loyalist associations.
The Irish Times
2
Do please remember that anyone, anyone at all, could be a Fifth Columnist.
A fierce radiance: a novel
3
The other passenger assured her that no one would ever take her for a Fifth Columnist.
The new yorker
4
There are more pressing threats to national health and stability than fifth columnists and terrorist sleeper cells.
The Guardian
5
He sees spies and fifth columnists everywhere.
The Information Officer
6
And all those conversations with fifth columnists on the Edgeware Road were being recorded and then carefully transcribed.
The Irish Times
7
Uniforms, posters warning against fifth columnists, two big air-raid shelters dug into the park lawns, and everywhere, surly officialdom.
Atonement
8
The file includes transcripts of his conversations with fifth columnists who suggested ways to damage Britain and assist a German invasion.
The Guardian
9
Unless they had planted, among the Arkies or the General Population, fifth columnists with orders to execute a coup d'état if necessary.
Seveneves
10
They were even worse, all Limehouse opium dens, fifth columnists, stolen diamond tiaras and "the grateful thanks of a nation".
The water room
11
"You and your bloody fifth columnists," said Hugh.
The Information Officer
12
We had a good war, really, chasing saboteurs and fifth columnists all over America... And the villains were all so colourful in those days.
The Good, The Bad, and The Uncanny
13
" Fifth columnists, they would be," Nettle said.
Atonement
14
Syria has this population of 17,000,000, here's 2,000,000 outsiders that are a potential fifth columnists, who knows what's going on?
The new yorker
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