Agent-provocateur meaning

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A person employed to associate with suspected individuals or groups with the purpose of inciting them to commit acts that will make them liable to punishment.
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A person hired to join a labor union, political party, etc. in order to incite its members to actions that will make them or their organization liable to penalty.
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A secret agent of a foreign nation, esp. one who incites citizens to rebellion, illegal acts, etc.
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Origin of agent-provocateur

  • French agent agent provocateur instigator
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Agent-provocateur Sentence Examples

  • This gave a handle to the Petersburg secret police, and they employed him as a spy and agent provocateur.

  • The opinion that the whole plot was the work of Salisbury, that he acted as an agent provocateur and lured on his victims to destruction, repeated by some contemporary and later writers and recently formulated and urged with great ability, has no solid foundation.

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