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Definition of Agent provocateur
1. Noun. A secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts.
Generic synonyms: Intelligence Agent, Intelligence Officer, Operative, Secret Agent
Definition of Agent provocateur
1. Noun. A person who secretly disrupts a group's activities from within the group; an instigator, troublemaker. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agent Provocateur
Literary usage of Agent provocateur
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Deportation Cases of 1919-1920 by Constantine Maria Panunzic (1921)
"The agent provocateur is employed not merely to apprehend an offender, ...
To draw the line between the simple agent and the agent provocateur may not be ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"The Terrorist who was ordered to carry It into effect, and was to have been
arrested after being denounced by the agent provocateur, received, ..."
3. What's what in the Labor Movement: A Dictionary of Labor Affairs and Labor by Waldo Ralph Browne (1921)
"agent provocateur. In connection with American labor affairs, a secret agent ...
The agent provocateur is an important factor in creating that atmosphere of ..."
4. The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia by Kellogg Durland (1908)
"The police, baffled on every hand in their efforts to capture the band, resorted
to the old-time successful method of an agent provocateur. ..."
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