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Provocateur

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An agent provocateur.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. One who engages in provocative behavior.

n. An undercover agent who incites suspected persons to partake in or commit criminal acts.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts

Word Usage

"To this day I do not know whether the man was a lunatic, an imposter seeking money, or an agent provocateur, that is, one who imagined that he might through me inveigle M. Zola into an illegal act which would lead to prosecution and imprisonment."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

intelligence officer operative intelligence agent secret agent

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provocation provocative

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