Agent | Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action. |
Agent | One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor. |
Agent | One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority
from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a
deputy; a factor. |
Agent | An active power or cause; that which has the power to
produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as,
heat is a powerful agent. |
agentive role, broker, factor, federal agent,
factor, broker, federal agent, agentive role, bourgeois, businessperson, causal agency, causal agent, cause, functionary, official, participant role, representative, semantic role,
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(noun) causal agent (generic term)|cause (generic term)|causal agency (generic term)
(noun) representative (generic term)
(noun) factor|broker|businessperson (generic term)|bourgeois (generic term)
(noun) federal agent|official (generic term)|functionary (generic term)
(noun) agentive role|semantic role (generic term)|participant role (generic term)
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English explanatory dictionary
n. 1 a a person who acts for another in business, politics, etc. (estate agent; insurance agent). b a spy. 2 a a person or thing that exerts power or produces an effect. b the cause of a natural force or effect on matter (oxidizing agent). c such a force or effect. øagent-general a representative of an Australian State or Canadian province, usu. in London. øøagential adj. [L agent- part. stem of agere do],
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agent | noun | one who is authorized to act for or in the place of another: as a : a representative, emissary, or official of a government b : one engaged in undercover activities (as espionage) : SPY c : a business representative (as of an athlete or entertainer) |
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