ag·i·ta·tor

(ăj′ĭ-tā′tər)

1. One who agitates, especially one who engages in political agitation.

2. An apparatus that shakes or stirs, as in a washing machine.

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agitator

(ˈædʒɪˌteɪtə)

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a person who agitates for or against a cause, etc

2. (General Engineering) a device, machine, or part used for mixing, shaking, or vibrating a material, usually a fluid

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ag•i•ta•tor

(ˈædʒ ɪˌteɪ tər)

n.

1. a person who stirs up others in favor of a political, social, or other cause or urges them to militant action.

2. a machine or device for agitating and mixing.

[1730–40]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

agitator - one who agitates; a political troublemaker

fomenter

bad hat, mischief-maker, trouble maker, troublemaker, troubler - someone who deliberately stirs up trouble

agitator

noun troublemaker, revolutionary, inciter, firebrand, instigator, demagogue, rabble-rouser, agent provocateur, stirrer (informal) a famous actress who was accused of being a political agitator

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

agitator

noun

One who agitates, especially politically:

fomenter, inciter, instigator.

Translations

مُهَيِّج، مُثِير لِلفِتَن

agitátor

agitatorurostifter

Agitator Propagandist

αγκιτάτορας

agitateur meneur perturbateur

agitátor

áróîursmaîur

agitatore arruffapopoli

agitator oppvigler

kışkırtıcıtahrikçi

鼓动者

agitator

[ˈædʒɪteɪtəʳ] N

1. (Pol) → agitador(a) m/f

2. (Chem) → agitador m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

agitator

[ˈædʒɪteɪtə^r] n → agitateur/trice m/f (politique)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

agitator

(= person) → Agitator(in) m(f)

(= device) → Rührwerk nt, → Rührapparat m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

agitator

[ˈædʒɪteɪtəʳ] n (Pol) (usu pej) → agitatore/trice

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

agitate

(ˈӕdʒiteit) verb

1. to make (someone) excited and anxious. The news agitated her.

2. to try to arouse public feeling and action. That group is agitating for prison reform.

3. to shake. The tree was agitated by the wind.

ˈagitated adjective

ˌagiˈtation noun

ˈagitator noun

a person who tries constantly to stir up public feeling. a political agitator.

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With his talent for speaking and drawing up documents, there are few men who could come up to him as an agitator--an agitator, you know."

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This George Milford was an obscure agitator about whom nothing is known, save the one additional bit of information gained from the Manuscript, which mentions that he was shot in the Chicago Commune.

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Now that the Beef Trust had adopted the trick of raising prices to induce enormous shipments of cattle, and then dropping them again and scooping in all they needed, a stock raiser was very apt to find himself in Chicago without money enough to pay his freight bill; and so he had to go to a cheap hotel, and it was no drawback to him if there was an agitator talking in the lobby.

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Since then, he hath become an active and earnest agitator, a murmurer, and a machinator, and a leader amongst those who impugn our authority; not considering that the rule is given to the Master even by the symbol of the staff and the rod the staff to support the infirmities of the weak the rod to correct the faults of delinquents.

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Lord Eldon said in his old age that "if he were to begin life again, he would be damned but he would begin as agitator."

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One was a tramp, another was a labor agitator, a third was a law- school student, and the remainder was composed of wordy workingmen.

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And he had been for years a most restless agitator for improvements in telegraphy and the post office.

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At first he tried the career of a professional agitator; going to Ireland he attempted to arouse the people against English tyranny by such devices as scattering copies of addresses from his window in Dublin or launching them in bottles in the Bristol Channel; but he was soon obliged to flee the country.

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Those would be the appropriate storms and agitators of the trees of life!

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"Moreover," hinted the Orange agitators interspersed through the crowd, whom they hoped to manage like a sharp-edged and at the same time crushing instrument, -- "moreover, will there not, from the Buytenhof to the gate of the town, a nice little opportunity present itself to throw some handfuls of dirt, or a few stones, at this Cornelius de Witt, who not only conferred the dignity of Stadtholder on the Prince of Orange merely vi coactus, but who also intended to have him assassinated?"

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What is said by great employers of labour against agitators is unquestionably true.

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But the chief president had replied with his habitual coolness, without betraying either disturbance or surprise, that should the agitators refuse obedience to the king's wishes he would have gallows erected in the public squares and proceed at once to hang the most active among them.

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