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Definition of 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 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
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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