Alternativa stavningar

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. One who remains when expected to leave or after others have left.
  2. (military) An agent who lives in a foreign country, and can be activated in certain circumstances.

Exempel

  • In areas where stay-behinds could be a threat, however, motion detectors should be used.
  • The stay-behinds then tend to move out of the house into a tent. This might have been the case at IT.
  • But the image to remember is of a few families enjoying a day within the forest steppe - away from the barking dogs, the smelly rubbish heaps, the grumpy stay-behinds of their village.
  • Bobby Kennedy believed the Mafia had lots of interests in and people in Cuba; he was absolutely convinced that they had left stay-behinds in Cuba and all they had to do was tap into those stay-behinds.
  • Diem chose instead to use his military forces and police to capture and kill the Viet Minh “stay-behinds,” even though these actually posed little or no threat to the country, since a good share of them were simply not Communists and those that had been had either recanted in favor of the Diem government or returned to the north.
  • Ganser closely documents activities of “stay-behinds” in 14 western nations — spies and agents with Nazi and Fascist backgrounds, secretly installed by NATO following the Second World War to counter a supposed Soviet threat.

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