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GRU

GRU is the initialism of gated recurrent unit.

Proper noun

GRU

  1. The Main Intelligence Directorate — the Soviet and then the Russian military intelligence agency.
    • Apparently nobody ever expects the GRU, Russian Military Intelligence.2020, Ben Aaronovitch, False Value, Gollancz, page 115
    • 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

Forms of GRU

pluralGRUs

Origin of GRU

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

Questions about GRU

What does GRU mean?
GRU means the Main Intelligence Directorate — the Soviet and then the Russian military intelligence agency.
What is GRU the initialism of?
GRU is the initialism of gated recurrent unit.
What part of speech is GRU?
GRU is a proper noun.

Words near GRU in the dictionary

  1. GRRs
  2. GRS
  3. GRSM
  4. GRSMs
  5. grt
  6. GRU
  7. Grua
  8. grub
  9. grub along
  10. grub and bub
  11. grub hoe

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