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sleeper cell

 

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Noun sleeper cell has 1 sense
  1. sleeper cell - a cell of sleepers; "an al-Qaeda sleeper cell may have used Arizona as its base"
    --1 is a kind of
    cell, cadre

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Sleeper Cell

Noun: A secretive group or organization of individuals who are recruited and trained to support and carry out acts of terrorism, but remain inactive and undetected until activated by a specific event or order.

Example sentence: The intelligence agencies worked tirelessly to uncover and dismantle the sleeper cell before it could execute its planned attack.

Adjective: Pertaining to or characteristic of a sleeper cell.

Example sentence: The police conducted thorough investigations into the possibility of a sleeper cell operating in the city.

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