Agitator meaning

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An apparatus that shakes or stirs, as in a washing machine.
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A person who tries to stir up people in support of a cause.
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One who agitates, especially one who engages in political agitation.
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An apparatus for shaking or stirring, as in a washing machine.
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One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.
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An implement for shaking or mixing.
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One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; called also adjutators.
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Agitator Sentence Examples

  • Nansen used all the arts of the agitator with extraordinary energy and success.

  • The strength of classical reminiscence and the instinct of liberty were reinforced by the support given to communal aspirations by the popular agitator and dangerous tribune, Arnold of Arnold of Brescia, whose theories arrived at an opportune Brescia.

  • "Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator," he said.

  • Up to 1870 he remained an agitator, but, after the liberation of Rome, seceded from the historic left, and became leader of the extreme left, a position held until his death on the 30th of April 1886.

  • In 1899 he qualified as a lawyer, and speedily became a prominent agitator on the extreme Left wing of the Socialist party.

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