1 the situation in which people protest or argue, especially in public, in order to achieve a particular type of change:
The anti-war agitation is beginning to worry the government.
In that year, we had another newspaper campaign, and agitations stirred up in favour of private interests in this matter.
They are, however, being constantly increased, and agitations to this end are still taking place.
Your agitations which occur with the aid of newspapers and cinematographs are worthless as any indication of popular opinion at all.
At this time, after all our agitations, is this all the benefit we can give?
Particular sections of the electors might work up agitations, causing a great deal of difficulty and distraction of the national effort.
Surely we are not going on negotiating on the basis of the formula if those agitations continue.
I have lived through the period of agitations that have been aroused in regard to this matter.
We have been suffering in this country from agitations, from strikes, from lock-outs—it does not matter what the cause has been—for the last 20 years.
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