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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A person employed to associate with suspected individuals or groups with the purpose of inciting them to commit acts that will make them liable to punishment.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A person who secretly disrupts a group's activities from within the group; an instigator, troublemaker.

WordNet 3.0

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

Etymologies

  1. Borrowing from French agent provocateur (literally "provocative agent") (Wiktionary)
  2. French : agent, agent + provocateur, instigator. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. intelligence officer
  1. operative
  1. intelligence agent
  1. secret agent

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