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Noun: provocateur  pru,vó-ku'tur
  1. A secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts
    "The agent provocateur infiltrated the group to gather evidence of their planned illegal activities";
    - agent provocateur

Derived forms: provocateurs

Type of: intelligence agent, intelligence officer, operative, secret agent, spook [informal], spy

Encyclopedia: Provocateur