Definition of Provocateur

1. Noun. A secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts.


Definition of Provocateur

1. Noun. One who engages in provocative behavior ¹

2. Noun. An undercover agent who incites suspected persons to partake in or commit criminal acts. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Provocateur

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Provocateur

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proviso quod
provisoes
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provisors
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provisorships
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provisour
provitamin
provitamin A
provitamins
provocate
provocateur (current term)
provocateurs
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provokable
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provoked
provokement
provokements

Literary usage of Provocateur

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"The Agent provocateur then acted in the interests of a coterie similar to that of which the Grand Duke Sergius had been the chief, and which aimed at ..."

2. Barbarous Mexico: An Indictment of a Cruel and Corrupt System by John Kenneth Turner (1910)
"At a given moment, according to Librado Rivera, who was vice-secretary of the club, the agent provocateur jumped to his feet to protest against the work of ..."

3. The Deportation Cases of 1919-1920 by Constantine Maria Panunzio (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 ..."

4. The Deportation Cases of 1919-1920 by Constantine Maria Panunzio (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 ..."

5. Guide to the Boris I. Nicolaevsky Collection in the Hoover Institution Archives by Anna M. Bourguina, Michael Jakobson (1989)
"Clippings (132-26.2) 16 Malinovskii, Roman, former member of Second Gosudarstvennaia duma, provocateur. Mostly clippings (132-27) SERIES NO. 133 207. ..."

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