provocateur
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From French provocateur.
[edit] Noun
Wikipedia provocateur (plural provocateurs)
- One who engages in provocative behavior
- 2007 February 28, Daniel J. Wakin, “City Opera Lures Director From Paris”:
- Gerard Mortier, an iconoclastic impresario and one of the opera world’s premier provocateurs, will become general manager and artistic director of the New York City Opera in 2009.
- 2007 February 28, Daniel J. Wakin, “City Opera Lures Director From Paris”:
- An undercover agent who incites suspected persons to partake in or commit criminal acts.
[edit] Translations
one who engages in provocative behavior
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undercover agent who incites suspected persons to partake in or commit criminal acts
[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
[edit] Noun
provocateur m. (plural provocateurs)
- "one who provokes"
