Usually means: Instigator secretly working for opposition.
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  1. agent provocateur: Merriam-Webster
  2. agent provocateur: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. agent provocateur: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. agent provocateur: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. agent provocateur: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. agent provocateur: Wiktionary
  9. agent provocateur: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. agent provocateur: Infoplease Dictionary
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  15. agent provocateur: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  17. agent provocateur: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  18. agent provocateur: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Agent Provocateur: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See agent_provocateurs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (agent provocateur)

noun:  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.

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