Agent

Quick meaning: Agent is a noun meaning One who exerts power, or has the power to act.

Meaning

One who exerts power, or has the power to act.

More Meanings

1. A person who looks for work for another person and brokers a deal between the hiree and hirer.
2. An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect.
3. (gambling) A cheat who is assisted by dishonest casino staff.
4. (law) One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to act on behalf of or in behalf of another, such as to transact business for them.
5. Someone who works for an intelligence agency: whether an officer or employee thereof or anyone else who agrees to help their efforts (for ideology, for money, as blackmailee, or otherwise).
6. (grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".
7. (computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.

Example Sentences

He worked as an agent for the government.

@Gary, are you a PAP agent? ... =) trying to incite rebellion and revolution on this site so that the govt will have an excuse to take down this site?

Having a good buyer’s agent also means having someone who is knowledgeable about the local real estate market and who has the skills and competence to negotiate with the seller’s agent on your behalf.

So far seems to be the work of chemistry alone; at least we have no right to conclude that any other agent interferes; since hay, when it happens to imbibe moisture, exhibits nearly the same processes."

Word Forms

• agents

Synonyms for agent

Depending on context, synonyms include manager, representative, rep, actor, performer, doer.

Antonyms for agent

Common opposites include patient, recipient, undergoer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include broker, factor, acting, consumer, proxy, client.

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