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

noun. One empowered to act for or represent another.

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

noun. A force or substance that causes a change.

noun. A representative or official of a government or administrative department of a government.

noun. A spy.

noun. The argument that expresses the means or cause of an action or event described by a phrase or clause. The noun John is the agent in the clause John threw the ball.

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

intransitive verb. To act as an agent or representative.

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

noun. 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.

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

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

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

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

noun. 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.

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

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

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

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. 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".

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

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

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

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

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

noun. 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."

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agent and patient  agent intellect  agent of truancy  catalytic agent  crown agent  

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participant role  semantic role  

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agency  authority  clause  defence  devil  

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