crisis actor

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person employed to portray a disaster victim during emergency drills.
  2. A person who secretly acts out a role, such as victim or mourner, as part of a staged depiction of a deadly event, particularly a mass shooting.
    — The victims in the shooting? They were “crisis actors” hired to promote the story as a pretext to impose tighter gun restrictions, the theory goes.
  3. A participant in an international crisis.
    — Finally, the greater the proportion of nondemocracies among crisis actors, the more likely it becomes that escalation will occur.

词形变化

crisis actors plural
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