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agent
[ ey-juhnt ]
noun
- a person or business authorized to act on another's behalf:
Our agent in Hong Kong will ship the merchandise.
A best-selling author needs a good agent.
Synonyms: ,
- a person or thing that acts or has the power to act.
- a natural force or object producing or used for obtaining specific results:
Many insects are agents of fertilization.
Synonyms:
- an active cause; an efficient cause.
- a person who works for or manages an agency.
- a person who acts in an official capacity for a government or private agency as a guard, detective, or spy:
an FBI agent;
the secret agents of a foreign power.
- a person responsible for a particular action:
Who was the agent of this deed?
- Grammar. a form or construction, usually a noun or noun phrase, denoting an animate being that performs or causes the action expressed by the verb, as the police in The car was found by the police.
- a representative of a business firm, especially a traveling salesperson; canvasser; solicitor.
- Chemistry. a substance that causes a reaction.
- Pharmacology. a drug or chemical capable of eliciting a biological response.
- Pathology. any microorganism capable of causing disease.
- British. a campaign manager; an election agent.
adjective
- acting; exerting power ( patient ).
verb (used with object)
- to represent (a person or thing) as an agent; act as an agent for: Who agented that deal?
to agent a manuscript;
Who agented that deal?
agent
/ ˈeɪdʒənt; eɪˈdʒɛnʃəl /
noun
- a person who acts on behalf of another person, group, business, government, etc; representative
- a person or thing that acts or has the power to act
- a phenomenon, substance, or organism that exerts some force or effect
a chemical agent
- the means by which something occurs or is achieved; instrument
wind is an agent of plant pollination
- a person representing a business concern, esp a travelling salesman
- short for estate agent
- short for secret agent
agent
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- A substance that can bring about a chemical reaction or a biological effect.
- Compare reagent
Derived Forms
- agential, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³¦´Ç³Ü²Ôt±ð°ù·²¹î€…g±ð²Ô³Ù noun
- ¾±²Ôt±ð°ù·²¹î€ƒg±ð²Ô³Ù noun
- ²õ³Üp±ð°ù·²¹î€…g±ð²Ô³Ù noun
- ³Ü²Ôd±ð°ù·²¹î€…g±ð²Ô³Ù noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of agent1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of agent1
Example Sentences
That term is used for suspected Chinese state agents who use their position to secretly influence key decision-makers in the British state, including politicians, academics and business leaders.
More documents about the relationship between Prince Andrew and an alleged Chinese agent of influence are being released to BBC News on Friday.
His agents are sweeping up legal residents in their opaque nets, labeling the whole unidentified lot as terrorists and shipping most of them off by planeloads to a Salvadoran megaprison.
The documents also implicate Libyan agents in the destruction of a French airliner that crashed in the Sahara desert in 1989, killing another 170 people.
Park cited the LAPD’s long-standing policy against its officers acting as immigration agents and told The Times that city employees were already barred, through an executive order, from immigration enforcement.
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