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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - agent provocateur

 
 

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Agent provocateur

agent provocateur
(agents provocateurs) An agent provocateur is a person who is employed by the government or the police to encourage certain groups of people to break the law, so they can arrest them or make them lose public support. Agents provocateurs may seek to discredit the opposition. N-COUNT
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   noun  (plural agents provocateurs)  Etymology: French, literally, provoking agent  Date: 1877 one employed to associate with suspected persons and by pretending sympathy with their aims to incite them to some incriminating action ...
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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  1. фр. провокатор ...
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  ~ n French someone who is employed to encourage people who are working against a government to do something illegal so that they are caught ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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