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Meaning of GRU | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Français gru
Italiano gru
Polski gru
Русский ГРУ
Українська гру

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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