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{{also|Agent Provocateur|Agent provocateur}}
{{also|Agent Provocateur|Agent provocateur}}
==English==
==English==
{{wikipedia}}


===Etymology===
===Etymology===
Borrowed from {{bor|en|fr|agent provocateur|lit=provocative agent|notext=1}}.
Borrowed from {{bor|en|fr|agent provocateur|lit=provocative agent}}.


===Pronunciation===
===Pronunciation===
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* {{IPA|en|/ˈeɪ.dʒənt ˌpɹəʊ.vɒk.æ.tʊə(ɹ)/|a=Anglicised,UK}}
* {{a|French}} {{IPA|/aʒɑ̃ pʁɔvɔkatœʁ/|lang=en}}
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* {{a|Anglicised|UK}} {{IPA|/ˈeɪ.dʒənt ˌpɹəʊ.vɒk.æ.tʊə(ɹ)/|lang=en}}


===Noun===
===Noun===
{{en-noun|agents provocateurs}}
{{en-noun|agents provocateurs}}


# A person who secretly disrupts a group's activities from within the group; an [[instigator]], [[troublemaker]].
# A person who secretly disrupts a group's activities from within the group, particularly by encouraging or committing illegal acts to discredit the group or expose them to prosecution; an [[instigator]], [[troublemaker]].
#* {{RQ:Doyle Land of Mist|passage="This '''agent-provocateur''' business is quite foreign to British justice."}}
#* '''1990''', {{w|Peter Hopkirk}}, ''The Great Game'', Folio Society 2010, p. 50:
#* {{RQ:Orwell Homage|chapter=9|passage=I was told afterwards—quite possibly it was true—that '''agents provocateurs''' were touching off masses of explosive in order to increase the general noise and panic.}}
#*: Suspecting that the man was an '''agent provocateur''' sent by the Prince, Pottinger told him that regrettably he had neither the knowledge nor the authority to instruct him in this or any other religion.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1990|author=w:Peter Hopkirk|title=The Great Game|publisher=Folio Society|year_published=2010|page=50|passage=Suspecting that the man was an '''agent provocateur''' sent by the Prince, Pottinger told him that regrettably he had neither the knowledge nor the authority to instruct him in this or any other religion.}}
#* '''2012''', Nadine El-Enany, ''The Guardian'', 25 Mar 2012:
#*: The criminalisation of protest has been aided by the director of public prosecution's recent guidelines on prosecuting protesters, which fail to account for the role of the police in prompting violence at demonstrations through tactics such as kettling, the use of batons, '''agents provocateurs''' and undercover policing.
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=25 Mar 2012|author=Nadine El-Enany|work=The Guardian|passage=The criminalisation of protest has been aided by the director of public prosecution's recent guidelines on prosecuting protesters, which fail to account for the role of the police in prompting violence at demonstrations through tactics such as kettling, the use of batons, '''agents provocateurs''' and undercover policing.}}


====Translations====
====Translations====
{{trans-top|a person who disrupts a group's activities from within}}
{{trans-top|a person who disrupts a group's activities from within}}
* Arabic: {{t-needed|ar}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|պրովոկատոր}}, {{t+|hy|սադրիչ}}
* Basque: {{t|eu|agente zirikatzaile}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|аге́нт-провока́тор|m}}
* Chinese:
*: Cantonese: {{t-needed|yue}}
*: Mandarin: {{t|cmn|[[反間]][[臥底]]}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|agent provokatér|m}}
* Danish: {{t-needed|da}}
* Dutch: {{t|nl|agent-provocateur|m}}, {{t+|nl|provocateur|m}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|provoka agento}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|provokaattori}}
* French: {{t+|fr|agent provocateur}}
* French: {{t+|fr|agent provocateur}}
* Georgian: {{t-needed|ka}}
* German: {{t+|de|Agent Provocateur|m}}; {{t+|de|Provokateur|m}}
* German: {{t+|de|Agent Provocateur|m}}; {{t+|de|Provokateur|m}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|סמוי|m|tr=samúy}}, {{t|he|מושתל|m|tr=mushtál}}, {{t|he|פרובוקטור|m|tr=provokátor}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|gefȳsende dōnd|m}}
* Hindi: {{t-needed|hi}}
{{trans-mid}}
* Hungarian: {{t|hu|([[beépített]] / [[civil]] [[ruhás]] [[rendőrségi]])}} {{t+|hu|provokátor}}/​{{t|hu|provokatőr}}, {{t+|hu|bujtogató}}, {{t+|hu|felbujtó}}
* Indonesian: {{t|id|agen provokator}}
* Italian: {{t|it|agent provocatore|m}}, {{t|it|agente provocatrice|f}}
* Japanese: {{t|ja|プロバカートル}}
* Malay: {{t|ms|ejen provokasi}}, {{t|ms|agen provokasi}}
* Persian: {{t|fa|آژان پرووکاتور|tr=âžân provokâtor}}
* Persian: {{t|fa|آژان پرووکاتور|tr=âžân provokâtor}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|prowokator}}
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|agente provocador|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|agente provocador|m}}
* Romanian: {{t|ro|agent provocator|m}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|провокатор}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|agente provocador}}
* Swedish: {{t|sv|lockfågel|c}}
* Thai: {{t-needed|th}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|ajan provokatör}}
* Vietnamese: {{t-needed|vi}}
{{trans-bottom}}
{{trans-bottom}}


===See also===
[[Category:en:People]]
* {{l|en|false flag}}


===Further reading===
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* {{pedia}}

{{c|en|People|Crime}}


==French==
==French==


===Noun===
===Noun===
{{fr-noun|m|agents provocateurs|f=agente provocatrice}}
{{fr-noun|m|f=+}}


# {{l|en|agent provocateur}}; [[instigator]], [[troublemaker]]
# {{l|en|agent provocateur}}; [[instigator]], [[troublemaker]]


====Descendants====
====Descendants====
* English: {{l|en|agent provocateur}} {{qualifier|borrowed}}
* {{desc|en|agent provocateur|bor=1}}
* {{desc|de|Agent Provocateur|bor=1}}
* Persian: {{l|fa|آژان پرووکاتور|tr=âžân provokâtor}} {{qualifier|borrowed}}
* {{desc|fa|آژان پرووکاتور|tr=âžân porovokâtor|bor=1}}
* {{desc|tr|ajan provokatör|bor=1}}

{{c|fr|People|Crime}}

Latest revision as of 05:37, 16 October 2024

See also: Agent Provocateur, and Agent provocateur

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French agent provocateur (literally “provocative agent”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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agent provocateur (plural agents provocateurs)

  1. A person who secretly disrupts a group's activities from within the group, particularly by encouraging or committing illegal acts to discredit the group or expose them to prosecution; an instigator, troublemaker.
    • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
      "This agent-provocateur business is quite foreign to British justice."
    • 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter IX, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
      I was told afterwards—quite possibly it was true—that agents provocateurs were touching off masses of explosive in order to increase the general noise and panic.
    • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 50:
      Suspecting that the man was an agent provocateur sent by the Prince, Pottinger told him that regrettably he had neither the knowledge nor the authority to instruct him in this or any other religion.
    • 2012 March 25, Nadine El-Enany, The Guardian:
      The criminalisation of protest has been aided by the director of public prosecution's recent guidelines on prosecuting protesters, which fail to account for the role of the police in prompting violence at demonstrations through tactics such as kettling, the use of batons, agents provocateurs and undercover policing.

Translations

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See also

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Further reading

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French

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Noun

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agent provocateur m (plural agents provocateurs, feminine agente provocatrice)

  1. agent provocateur; instigator, troublemaker

Descendants

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