Word Of The Day For Monday May 27, 2019

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Monday May 27, 2019

sabotage

PRONUNCIATION: (SAB-uh-tazh)

MEANING: verb tr.: To disrupt, damage, or destroy, especially in an underhanded manner. noun: An instance of such subversion.

ETYMOLOGY: From French saboter (to walk noisily, to botch), from sabot (wooden shoe). Earliest documented use: 1910.

NOTES: The popular story of disgruntled workers throwing their sabots into the machinery to jam it is not supported by evidence. Rather, it’s that the workers typically wore sabots.

USAGE: “Could MazeHunter be used by US companies to sabotage the attacker’s computer?” Nicholas Schmidle; Digital Vigilantes; The New Yorker; May 7, 2018.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Compassion is not weakness and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. – Hubert Humphrey, US Vice President (27 May 1911-1978)

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