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n. One that acts or has the power or authority to act.

n. One empowered to act for or represent another: an author's agent; an insurance agent.

n. A means by which something is done or caused; instrument.

n. A force or substance that causes a change: a chemical agent; an infectious agent.

n. A representative or official of a government or administrative department of a government: an FBI agent.

n. A spy.

n. Linguistics The noun or noun phrase that specifies the person through whom or the means by which an action is effected.

v. To act as an agent or representative for: Who will agent your next book?

verb-intransitive. To act as an agent or representative.

n. One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.

n. One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. 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".

adj. Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.

n. One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.

n. 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.

n. An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect, such as a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent.

n. a chemical substance having biological effects; a drug.

Acting: opposed to patient in the sense of sustaining action.

n. An active cause; an efficient cause; one who or that which acts or has the power to act: as, a moral agent; many insects are agents of fertilization.

n. A person acting on behalf of another, called his principal; a representative; a deputy, factor, substitute, or attorney. Often abbreviated to agt.

n. An official: as, an agent of police.

n. any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau

n. a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission

n. an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect

n. the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

n. a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations

n. a substance that exerts some force or effect

"An individual human agent is simply the repository of the roles and values of the institutions in which the ˜agent™ lives his or her life."

patient   

participant role    semantic role   

means    free agent    agent and patient    crown agent    general agent    therapeutic agent    morbific agent    fixing agent    reducing agent    agent of truancy   

action    agency    act   

agentlik   

acting    actor    substitute    deputy    factor    drug   

reagent   

officer    agency    official    manager    organization    service    product    authority    plan    lawyer