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Definition of agent provocateur in English: agent provocateurnounPlural agents provocateurs ˌaʒɒ̃ prəˌvɒkəˈtəːaʒɑ̃ pʀɔvɔkatøʀˌɑʒɑn(t) prəˌvɔkəˈtər A person employed to induce others to break the law so that they can be convicted. （诱使其他人犯罪然后加以逮捕的）密探 Example sentencesExamples - In the film, a British agent provocateur named William Walker instigates a slave revolution that drives the occupying government out, thereby creating an independent Queimada, whose sugar production British merchants will control.
- Is it not understood that this government has in the not-very-distant past sent out agents provocateurs?
- If anything, these leaders act as agents provocateurs.
- It is also not clear how extensive the involvement of agents provocateurs, or police disguised as protesters, is in moments like this that threaten to tear apart the movement.
- A year later, four were hanged, even as evidence emerged revealing that the bomb may have been thrown by an agent provocateur in the employ of the police.
- Intrigue was seemingly everywhere in the period, with contemporary governments forced to deal with it by employing spies, and agents provocateurs.
- Keegan is suspicious of those who operate on the periphery of war - the spies, agents provocateurs, and James Bond types.
- It is unclear which financial companies would be willing to provide that insurance, given the inability of the organizers of the demonstration to control agents provocateurs and the damage they can cause.
- The activities of agents provocateurs against political dissidents in Imperial Russia was one of the grievances that led to the Russian Revolution.
- It employed agents provocateurs to lure people into unwise utterances.
- Only one gunman appears to have pulled a pistol from his pocket in the crowd, and this man's identity is controversial - with suggestions that agents provocateurs were active in the crowd.
- Some CGH members voiced their suspicion that the conflict had been initiated by agents provocateurs.
- Reports circulated of agents provocateurs who had started the violence, of Black Block activists being dropped off by police vehicles, of right-wingers from Italy or abroad infiltrating their ranks.
- Survivors of the massacres had long insisted that the shooting that day had been initiated by agents provocateurs in civilian clothes, who distinguished themselves from the protesters by wearing white gloves.
- These agents provocateurs broke windows and carried out other acts of violence before turning on the other demonstrators, firing their weapons and making arrests.
- With that in mind, they are concocting a conspiracy theory of their own - that he was either an agent provocateur, or the unwitting stooge of an agent provocateur, acting on behalf of the state to destroy the extreme right wing.
- As it is, I believe that trading standards should use children as agents provocateurs to gauge which shops are abiding to the law.
- There are some who claim that Fawkes and co were framed, and the entire gunpowder plot was down to agents provocateurs, intended to further discredit Catholics and ensure that their lowly position in English society was cemented.
- The confusion - much of it intentional - in describing what is going on is based on not distinguishing the legitimate resistance from the agents provocateurs.
- But there have been some suspicious incidents in the South in which one could imagine agents provocateurs playing a role.
Synonyms initiator, prime mover, motivator, architect, designer, deviser, planner, shaper, inventor, maker, producer, contriver, mastermind, originator, author, creator, founder, pioneer, father, mother, founding father, agent
OriginLate 19th century: French, literally 'provocative agent'. Rhymesà deux, astir, auteur, aver, bestir, blur, bon viveur, burr, Chandigarh, coiffeur, concur, confer, connoisseur, cordon-bleu, cri de cœur, cur, danseur, Darfur, defer, demur, de rigueur, deter, entrepreneur, er, err, farceur, faute de mieux, fir, flâneur, Fleur, force majeure, fur, hauteur, her, infer, inter, jongleur, Kerr, littérateur, longueur, masseur, Monseigneur, monsieur, Montesquieu, Montreux, murre, myrrh, occur, pas de deux, Pasteur, per, pisteur, poseur, pot-au-feu, prefer, prie-dieu, pudeur, purr, raconteur, rapporteur, refer, répétiteur, restaurateur, saboteur, sabreur, seigneur, Sher, shirr, sir, skirr, slur, souteneur, spur, stir, tant mieux, transfer, Ur, vieux jeu, voyageur, voyeur, were, whirr Definition of agent provocateur in US English: agent provocateurnounˌäZHän(t) prəˌvôkəˈtərˌɑʒɑn(t) prəˌvɔkəˈtər A person who induces others to break the law so that they can be convicted. （诱使其他人犯罪然后加以逮捕的）密探 Example sentencesExamples - In the film, a British agent provocateur named William Walker instigates a slave revolution that drives the occupying government out, thereby creating an independent Queimada, whose sugar production British merchants will control.
- A year later, four were hanged, even as evidence emerged revealing that the bomb may have been thrown by an agent provocateur in the employ of the police.
- As it is, I believe that trading standards should use children as agents provocateurs to gauge which shops are abiding to the law.
- Reports circulated of agents provocateurs who had started the violence, of Black Block activists being dropped off by police vehicles, of right-wingers from Italy or abroad infiltrating their ranks.
- Keegan is suspicious of those who operate on the periphery of war - the spies, agents provocateurs, and James Bond types.
- Survivors of the massacres had long insisted that the shooting that day had been initiated by agents provocateurs in civilian clothes, who distinguished themselves from the protesters by wearing white gloves.
- The confusion - much of it intentional - in describing what is going on is based on not distinguishing the legitimate resistance from the agents provocateurs.
- But there have been some suspicious incidents in the South in which one could imagine agents provocateurs playing a role.
- With that in mind, they are concocting a conspiracy theory of their own - that he was either an agent provocateur, or the unwitting stooge of an agent provocateur, acting on behalf of the state to destroy the extreme right wing.
- These agents provocateurs broke windows and carried out other acts of violence before turning on the other demonstrators, firing their weapons and making arrests.
- The activities of agents provocateurs against political dissidents in Imperial Russia was one of the grievances that led to the Russian Revolution.
- It is unclear which financial companies would be willing to provide that insurance, given the inability of the organizers of the demonstration to control agents provocateurs and the damage they can cause.
- Only one gunman appears to have pulled a pistol from his pocket in the crowd, and this man's identity is controversial - with suggestions that agents provocateurs were active in the crowd.
- Intrigue was seemingly everywhere in the period, with contemporary governments forced to deal with it by employing spies, and agents provocateurs.
- It is also not clear how extensive the involvement of agents provocateurs, or police disguised as protesters, is in moments like this that threaten to tear apart the movement.
- It employed agents provocateurs to lure people into unwise utterances.
- There are some who claim that Fawkes and co were framed, and the entire gunpowder plot was down to agents provocateurs, intended to further discredit Catholics and ensure that their lowly position in English society was cemented.
- Some CGH members voiced their suspicion that the conflict had been initiated by agents provocateurs.
- If anything, these leaders act as agents provocateurs.
- Is it not understood that this government has in the not-very-distant past sent out agents provocateurs?
Synonyms initiator, prime mover, motivator, architect, designer, deviser, planner, shaper, inventor, maker, producer, contriver, mastermind, originator, author, creator, founder, pioneer, father, mother, founding father, agent
OriginLate 19th century: French, literally ‘provocative agent’. |