What's the difference between defector and traitor?

Defector


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If I don’t do everything by the book, what hope is there for the other defectors I know who want to go back to North Korea?” he said.
  • (2) Security agents have been visiting the families of defectors and telling them that it is safe for their loved ones to return, a Reuters investigation found last year.
  • (3) Yemen conflict: 'This war has killed everything that was beautiful' Read more “Based on the efforts of some friendly nations to reach a humanitarian ceasefire, during which the aggressive blockade is lifted and trade ships are allowed to reach Yemeni ports, and the path is opened for humanitarian assistance, we declare our agreement to the humanitarian ceasefire that begins on Tuesday,” said Sharaf Luqman, a spokesman for Yemeni army defectors who have allied with the rebels.
  • (4) "That's what the defectors are telling us," said Sheikh Tawfik Abu Sleiman, leader of one of the Aleppo brigades.
  • (5) On 27 December, Abdulrahman cited 148 violent deaths in Syria for that day: 49 rebels, 42 soldiers, three defectors, and the remaining 54 likely to be a mix of noncombatant civilians and unidentified rebels: "It isn't easy to count rebels because nobody on the ground says 'this is a rebel'.
  • (6) In a determined attempt to cover up the damage the two defectors caused, Carey-Foster added that senior British intelligence and defence officials should tell the US they could give them “no confidential information” about the two spies.
  • (7) His dependence on Tory-defector Shaun Woodward was emphasised as the Northern Ireland secretary sat beside him at Wednesday's prime minister's questions.
  • (8) Eighteen persons got cancer before invitation and six defectors as well.
  • (9) North Korea says the UN move is based on trumped-up allegations by defectors and backed by the United States and other countries seeking to overthrow its ruling regime.
  • (10) Updated at 11.01am GMT 8.59am GMT A very interesting tweet about police defectors from BBC’s Duncan Crawford.
  • (11) Authorities have also used the attacks by defectors to support their official narrative: that the unrest in Syria is the work of armed gangs and terrorists rather than true reform-seekers.
  • (12) Ukip's existing general election candidate in Clacton-on-Sea said he had no intention of standing aside for the Conservative defector Douglas Carswell – and even said that the Tories had been making overtures to him.
  • (13) Minutes after Ali Mohsen's defection, tanks belonging to the republican guards, an elite force led by the president's son Ahmed Ali, rolled into the streets of Sana'a, setting the stage for a standoff between defectors and loyalists.
  • (14) Assisted by Saunders, a British bureaucrat, 007 is tasked with protecting a key asset – in the book, British agent 272, in the film, Soviet defector Georgi Koskov – from a waiting assassin.
  • (15) According to testimonies from workers and defectors, labourers from the reclusive state said they receive almost no salaries in person while in the Gulf emirate during the three years they typically spend there.
  • (16) Could it be that the Tory tactic of frightening voters with the SNP worked and that enough “Conservative” Ukip defectors switched back at the last minute, whereas “Labour” Ukip defectors didn’t?
  • (17) Tonight [Monday] was not a particularly special night other than the fact that a number of my colleagues came together and formed a view collectively that I should be the new chief minister of the NT.” There were also reports on Tuesday that CLP defectors Alison Anderson and Larissa Lee had returned to the party to boost its numbers after resigning in protest a year ago.
  • (18) Warren Truss has asserted the National party’s demand for a greater share of cabinet positions as the deputy prime minister pushed back at criticism of his secret talks with Liberal defector Ian Macfarlane .
  • (19) Defectors’ groups estimate there are up to 65,000 North Koreans working in about 40 countries.
  • (20) Possible Tory defectors are likely, however, to hold back for the moment and focus on stepping up the pressure on the prime minister to adopt a tougher stance in his EU membership negotiations.

Traitor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason.
  • (n.) Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer.
  • (a.) Traitorous.
  • (v. t.) To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Worst of all, it invites politicians to identify their opponents as traitors to the nation.
  • (2) It’s all they are interested in – identifying traitors.
  • (3) Was Boris Nemtsov killed because in Russia opposition activists are deemed traitors?
  • (4) The independent review was set up by Steve Williams, the new Police Federation chairman, who has been called a traitor and a dictator, and faced a no-confidence motion for trying to drive through a programme of reform of the organisation after he took up the role earlier this year.
  • (5) Evra had earlier railed against the "traitor" in the squad's midst, "who told the press what was said" at half-time against Mexico.
  • (6) We ought not treat a traitor like a martyr.” Responding to Cotton, a White House official said it was worth considering that the Republican supported the presidency of “someone who publicly praised WikiLeaks” and who “encouraged a foreign government to hack his opponent”, in reference to Trump.
  • (7) Photograph: Adharanand Finn On another wall by a playground, Jeff points out the faces of Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, and painted between them the question: “Hero or traitor?” The relative freedom Bogotá’s street artists have become accustomed too, however, may be about to change.
  • (8) Another former colleague in the psychological operations unit, Fred Allen Lucas, said that Page called him a "race traitor" for dating Latina women and took to calling other races "dirt people".
  • (9) The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself.
  • (10) But as the night echoed with chants denouncing Taliban apologists as traitors,some in the crowd quietly admitted their doubts.
  • (11) It is hard to imagine a less traitorous motive for whistleblowing, or a more powerful public interest in what was revealed.
  • (12) Mohammad Javad Zarif, his foreign minister, was labelled a traitor and threatened with being buried in the concrete to be used to decommission the Arak nuclear reactor .
  • (13) On Sunday, appearing on the CBS talk show Face the Nation, former air force general and NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden called Snowden a traitor and accused him of treason.
  • (14) But Adam Holloway asked leftie David Winnick if he'd think Snowden a traitor if a British city was nuked by terrorists (duh?).
  • (15) Sessions denied what he called “very painful” claims at the time that he condemned the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as “un-American” and described a white civil rights attorney as a race traitor.
  • (16) When Murphy resumed his 100-town tour off Edinburgh’s Princes Street on Tuesday he was energetic and courteous, praising both sides for their patriotism: “No one in this debate is a traitor, no one is a quisling.” The remark was directed at angry, even threatening hecklers ( he posted the evidence on YouTube ) who had called Murphy both and forced him to suspend the tour temporarily.
  • (17) We didn’t want to make this journey but in Baghdad I worked as a translator for a British oil company and people saw me as a traitor.
  • (18) Inside the cavernous hall, Cameron kicked off with a joke that failed, tragically, to rise – he felt a "bit of a traitor", he said, because "here I am in a bakery, but the thing is, I went out the other day and bought myself my own breadmaker".
  • (19) He is a traitor because, by a cold-blooded and calculated act, he attacked your country by significantly damaging its capacity to defend itself from its enemies, and in doing so, he put your citizen’s lives at risk.
  • (20) Nobody knows if he defected or he's a traitor or he was kidnapped.