English Dictionary

crisis actor

noun

A person employed to portray a disaster victim during emergency drills.

The conspiracy theory claims that the government hired crisis actors to stage the event.

意味（1）

A person employed to portray a disaster victim during emergency drills.

意味（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.

意味（3）

(politics) 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.