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Agent Provocateur

Definition: Agent Provocateur

Agent Provocateur

Noun

1. A secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms within Context: Agent Provocateur

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Motive

Prompter, tempter; seducer, seductor; instigator, firebrand, incendiary; Siren, Circe; agent provocateur; lobbyist.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: Agent Provocateur

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Man: The Transsexual Journey of an Agent Provocateur (reference)

  • Agent Provocateur (reference)

  • Agent Provocateur (Silhouette Intimate Moments No. 126) (reference)

  • Agent provocateur : et etisk og juridisk problem (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Agent Provocateur

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

agent provocateur

189

agent provocateur red tape

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Agent Provocateur

Language Translations for "agent provocateur"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

agent provokatér. (various references)

   

German

  

provokateur (agitator, trouble maker, troublemaker). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προβοκάτορασ. (various references)

   

Manx

  

brasneyder (abettor, inciter). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

agentay ovocateurpray

   

Russian 

  

провокатор (noser, provocateur, stool pigeon). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

provokator. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

agente provocador. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

provokatör ajan, kışkırtıcı ajan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Agent Provocateur

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-g-n-o-o-p-r-r-t-t-u-v"

-5 letters: cogenerator, counterpart, gerontocrat, governorate, overprotect, provocateur.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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