📚 noun • entry_id 45669
fifth column
Meanings (ES + gloss)
quinta columna
A group of people which clandestinely undermines a larger group, such as a nation, to which it is expected to be loyal.
The rebels, who in November 1936 had fought to enter and failed, walked in yesterday as troops of the generally recognised Spanish Government, and not a shot was fired at them. The…
True, we have people of the fifth column, and, unfortunately, the sixth column, with us; they have them in every country; but so far in this war the British diplomatic and secret s…
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