gru
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of gru
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of gated recurrent unit.
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noun
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of gated recurrent unit.
name
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The Main Intelligence Directorate — the Soviet and then the Russian military intelligence agency.
“Apparently nobody ever expects the GRU, Russian Military Intelligence.”
“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.”
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Etymology
From Russian ГРУ (GRU), through phonetic transliteration of Гла́вное Разве́дывательное Управле́ние (Glávnoje Razvédyvatelʹnoje Upravlénije) and acronymizing.
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