agent
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin agēnsder. English agent From Latin agēns, present active participle of agere (“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”).
- derived from agēns
Definitions
One who exerts power, or has the power to act.
One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority
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.
- He worked as an agent for the government.
- I see in him [Moby Dick] outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.
- 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.
A person who looks for work for another person and brokers a deal between the hiree and…
A person who looks for work for another person and brokers a deal between the hiree and hirer.
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Someone who works for an intelligence agency
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).
- @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?
An active power or cause or substance
An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect.
- 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."
- Agents are means-rational insofar as they effectively pursue the goals they currently have—but means-rationality (even under a narrow-scope interpretation) does not prohibit agents from changing their goals or dropping them entirely.
In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation…
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.
The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the…
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".
- Near-synonym: doer
- A verb is typically described as active when its subject is the agent or actor. By contrast, a verb is said to be passive when the subject does not perform the action, but is the patient, target, or undergoer of the action.
A cheat who is assisted by dishonest casino staff.
- Nevada casinos are fleeced out of millions of dollars yearly by agents (cheats acting as players) in collusion with crooked Black Jack dealers and pit bosses.
A law enforcement officer tasked with enforcing a specific field of law.
- The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives officers are just simply referred to as "ATF agents".
- In the Atlanta suburb of Lilburn, ICE agents arrested Walter Valladares, a 53-year-old undocumented immigrant from Honduras, according to family members who spoke with CNN.
A respectful term of address for an agent, especially a law enforcement agent.
- Steve Haines (Robert Bogue): Agent Sanchez! Apprehend these suspects!
A surname.
The neighborhood
- synonymactor
- synonymperformer
- antonympatientantonym(s) of “grammar”
- antonymrecipientantonym(s) of “grammar”
- antonymundergoerantonym(s) of “grammar”
- neighboract
- neighboraction
- neighboragency
- neighborproxy
Derived
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Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at agent. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at agent. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at agent
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA