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GRU

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Initialism of gated recurrent unit.
  2. The Main Intelligence Directorate — the Soviet and then the Russian military intelligence agency.

Equivalents

Françaisgru
Italianogru
РусскийГРУ
2 more languages
Polskigru
Українськагру

Examples

“Apparently nobody ever expects the GRU, Russian Military Intelligence.”
“A team of investigators claim⟳ to have⟳ unmasked a deep-cover spy from Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, who spent a decade posing as a Latin American jewellery designer and partied with Nato staff based in Naples.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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