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Agent provocateur

//ˈeɪ.dʒənt ˌpɹəʊ.vɒk.æ.tʊə(ɹ)// noun

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Noun
  1. 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.

    ""This agent-provocateur business is quite foreign to British justice.""

  2. 2
    a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts wordnet

Etymology

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

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