1. People who engage in sabotage or deliberate obstruction of machinery, equipment, or operations, especially as a form of protest or resistance.
Usage: plural form; informal; often used in environmental activism contexts

Examples

• Environmental monkeywrenchers disabled logging equipment to prevent deforestation.
• The factory owners accused the protesters of being monkeywrenchers who damaged their machinery.
• Monkeywrenchers have historically used tactics to disrupt industrial operations they oppose.
• The documentary explored the methods used by monkeywrenchers in the 1980s environmental movement.
• Critics argued that monkeywrenchers crossed the line from peaceful protest into illegal sabotage.