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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a person who disrupts a group's activities from within",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "agent provocatore"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a person who disrupts a group's activities from within",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "agente provocatrice"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "a person who disrupts a group's activities from within",
"word": "プロバカートル"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "a person who disrupts a group's activities from within",
"word": "ejen provokasi"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "a person who disrupts a group's activities from within",
"word": "agen provokasi"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "âžân provokâtor",
"sense": "a person who disrupts a group's activities from within",
"word": "آژان پرووکاتور"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a person who disrupts a group's activities from within",
"word": "prowokator"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a person who disrupts a group's activities from within",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "agente provocador"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a person who disrupts a group's activities from within",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "agent provocator"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "provokator",
"sense": "a person who disrupts a group's activities from within",
"word": "провокатор"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a person who disrupts a group's activities from within",
"word": "agente provocador"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a person who disrupts a group's activities from within",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "lockfågel"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a person who disrupts a group's activities from within",
"word": "ajan provokatör"
}
],
"word": "agent provocateur"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "agent provocateur",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: agent provocateur",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: agent provocateur"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Agent Provocateur",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ German: Agent Provocateur",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ German: Agent Provocateur"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fa",
"2": "آژان پرووکاتور",
"bor": "1",
"tr": "âžân porovokâtor"
},
"expansion": "→ Persian: آژان پرووکاتور (âžân porovokâtor)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Persian: آژان پرووکاتور (âžân porovokâtor)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tr",
"2": "ajan provokatör",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Turkish: ajan provokatör",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Turkish: ajan provokatör"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "agents provocateurs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "agente provocatrice",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"f": "+"
},
"expansion": "agent provocateur m (plural agents provocateurs, feminine agente provocatrice)",
"name": "fr-noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French lemmas",
"French masculine nouns",
"French multiword terms",
"French nouns",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"fr:Crime",
"fr:People"
],
"glosses": [
"agent provocateur; instigator, troublemaker"
],
"links": [
[
"agent provocateur",
"agent provocateur#English"
],
[
"instigator",
"instigator"
],
[
"troublemaker",
"troublemaker"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "agent provocateur"
}
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