"stay-behind" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stay-behinds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "stay-behind (plural stay-behinds)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sleeper"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sleeper cell"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1988, Robert L. Barnard, Intrusion Detection Systems, page 46",
          "text": "In areas where stay-behinds could be a threat, however, motion detectors should be used.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Dick Stapert, Lykke Johansen, “Ring & Sector Analysis, and Site ‘IT’ on Greenland”, in Palaeohistoria, volumes 37-38, page 60",
          "text": "The stay-behinds then tend to move out of the house into a tent. This might have been the case at IT.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Steven Mithen, After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC, page 44",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who remains when expected to leave or after others have left."
      ],
      "id": "en-stay-behind-en-noun-k51HdMyk",
      "links": [
        [
          "remain",
          "remain"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Military",
          "orig": "en:Military",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 89",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a. 2000, Sam Halpern, Quoted in 2000, James Srodes, Allen Dulles: Master of Spies, page 545,\nBobby 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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Bradley O'Leary, L. E. Seymour, Triangle of Death, unnumbered page",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, David MacGregor, “Update: September 11 as “Macchiavellian State Terror””, in Paul Zarembka, editor, The Hidden History of 9/11, unnumbered page",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An agent who lives in a foreign country, and can be activated in certain circumstances."
      ],
      "id": "en-stay-behind-en-noun-~ECxZCEi",
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "agent",
          "agent"
        ],
        [
          "live",
          "live"
        ],
        [
          "foreign",
          "foreign"
        ],
        [
          "country",
          "country"
        ],
        [
          "activated",
          "activated"
        ],
        [
          "circumstance",
          "circumstance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military) An agent who lives in a foreign country, and can be activated in certain circumstances."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "stay behind"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stay-behind"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stay-behinds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "stay-behind (plural stay-behinds)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "sleeper"
    },
    {
      "word": "sleeper cell"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1988, Robert L. Barnard, Intrusion Detection Systems, page 46",
          "text": "In areas where stay-behinds could be a threat, however, motion detectors should be used.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Dick Stapert, Lykke Johansen, “Ring & Sector Analysis, and Site ‘IT’ on Greenland”, in Palaeohistoria, volumes 37-38, page 60",
          "text": "The stay-behinds then tend to move out of the house into a tent. This might have been the case at IT.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Steven Mithen, After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC, page 44",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who remains when expected to leave or after others have left."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "remain",
          "remain"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Military"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a. 2000, Sam Halpern, Quoted in 2000, James Srodes, Allen Dulles: Master of Spies, page 545,\nBobby 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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Bradley O'Leary, L. E. Seymour, Triangle of Death, unnumbered page",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, David MacGregor, “Update: September 11 as “Macchiavellian State Terror””, in Paul Zarembka, editor, The Hidden History of 9/11, unnumbered page",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An agent who lives in a foreign country, and can be activated in certain circumstances."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "agent",
          "agent"
        ],
        [
          "live",
          "live"
        ],
        [
          "foreign",
          "foreign"
        ],
        [
          "country",
          "country"
        ],
        [
          "activated",
          "activated"
        ],
        [
          "circumstance",
          "circumstance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military) An agent who lives in a foreign country, and can be activated in certain circumstances."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "stay behind"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stay-behind"
}