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Another word for defector

noun

A person who has defected:

apostate, deserter, recreant, renegade, runagate, tergiversator, turncoat. (Informal) rat. See approach

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One of his best-remembered roles was as a Vietnam war defector in Soviet Russia opposite Mikhail Baryshnikov in White Nights.

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