Dictionary

GRU en · NOUN · etymology 1

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, qualifier:artificial intelligence) Initialism of gated recurrent unit.
   alt of gated recurrent unit

Forms

GRU en · PROPN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Russian ГРУ (GRU), through phonetic transliteration of Гла́вное Разве́дывательное Управле́ние (Glávnoje Razvédyvatelʹnoje Upravlénije) and acronymizing.

Meanings

1. The Main Intelligence Directorate — the Soviet and then the Russian military intelligence agency.
   • 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. 2022 August 26, Shaun Walker, “Socialite who charmed Nato staff in Naples was Russian spy, say investigators”, in The Guardian:
   • Apparently nobody ever expects the GRU, Russian Military Intelligence. 2020, Ben Aaronovitch, False Value, Gollancz, page 115:

Relateds

KGB · FSB · SVR · NKVD

Translations (4)

uk ГРУ (Soviet and Russian GRU) · ru ГРУ (Soviet and Russian GRU) · cmn 格魯烏 /格鲁乌 (Soviet and Russian GRU) · pl GRU (Soviet and Russian GRU)