A group of secret agents that have remained inactive for a long period.
潜伏小组（一群长时间处于潜伏状态的秘密特工）
Example sentencesExamples
The U.S. citizen killed by a missile launched from a pilotless drone aircraft over Yemen was the ringleader of an alleged terrorist sleeper cell in Lackawanna, N.Y., administration officials said yesterday.
Three Saudis and 7 Moroccans were accused of forming a sleeper cell and planning terrorist attacks against ships entering the Straits of Gibraltar.
The first major U.S. terror trial after the 9/11 attacks centered on four men said to form a Detroit sleeper cell.
The plea agreements exposed as a fraud claims made by Attorney General John Ashcroft last October that the arrests in Portland had disrupted a ‘terrorist sleeper cell.’
The government said the men formed a sleeper cell and they are too dangerous to be allowed to post bail.
Even with background checks and added government screening, one of these employees could easily be a member of a terrorist sleeper cell.
I believe that these restrictions are not excessive given the nature of the threat that confronts us, nor do they result in ‘illusory’ security when, say, a sleeper cell is uncovered.
Detroit prosecutors said at least four of the men ‘operated as a covert underground support unit’ and were also a sleeper cell.
Secretly entering the United States to join a terrorist sleeper cell, he moves in with his childhood friend Sayeed, a physician contentedly living with his family in Jersey City.
The government has every right in the world to believe that they may very well have been a sleeper cell.
That's one sleeper cell you do not want to wake up.
Definition of sleeper cell in US English:
sleeper cell
noun
A secretive group of spies or terrorist agents that remain inactive within a target population until ordered to act.
Example sentencesExamples
The government has every right in the world to believe that they may very well have been a sleeper cell.
Secretly entering the United States to join a terrorist sleeper cell, he moves in with his childhood friend Sayeed, a physician contentedly living with his family in Jersey City.
Even with background checks and added government screening, one of these employees could easily be a member of a terrorist sleeper cell.
The first major U.S. terror trial after the 9/11 attacks centered on four men said to form a Detroit sleeper cell.
I believe that these restrictions are not excessive given the nature of the threat that confronts us, nor do they result in ‘illusory’ security when, say, a sleeper cell is uncovered.
That's one sleeper cell you do not want to wake up.
Detroit prosecutors said at least four of the men ‘operated as a covert underground support unit’ and were also a sleeper cell.
The U.S. citizen killed by a missile launched from a pilotless drone aircraft over Yemen was the ringleader of an alleged terrorist sleeper cell in Lackawanna, N.Y., administration officials said yesterday.
The government said the men formed a sleeper cell and they are too dangerous to be allowed to post bail.
Three Saudis and 7 Moroccans were accused of forming a sleeper cell and planning terrorist attacks against ships entering the Straits of Gibraltar.
The plea agreements exposed as a fraud claims made by Attorney General John Ashcroft last October that the arrests in Portland had disrupted a ‘terrorist sleeper cell.’