diversant

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian диверсант (diversant) or Serbo-Croatian diverzant / диверзант.

Noun

diversant (plural diversants)

1. (non-native speakers' English) A saboteur.
   • 1991 July 20, Dusan Iricanin, “ustase and cetnici”, in soc.culture.yugoslavia‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-27:

     Yesterday a diversant group was caught in a region of Samarica. Their aim was poisoning a regional water system on the area of counties of Glina, Petrinja and Dvor na Uni. Arrested diversants had: sniper and automatic guns, bombs and 500 grams of poison.

   • 2000 March 6, DMY, “Looking through the propaganda from the war”, in alt.culture.chechnya‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-27:

     Almost all territory of Chechnia is currenly cleaned. What's left - are separate groups of diversants, which will be eliminated during next several months.

   • 2002 March 4, ASN, “Why russians are antiamericans so much?”, in soc.culture.russian‎^[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-27:

     they pushed by us in the years '90-99 the thieves and diversants on the power, all the monsters like Eltsin, Gaidar, Tchubais, Kozyrev, threatened us and made hysterics by any danger for them ("the reforms cannot be fulfilled without the reformators!")... And now they fastidiously screw up the face : "those Russians!.. They cannot without stealing".