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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
agent
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a letting agent/agency (=one that arranges lettings)
agent provocateur
double agent
estate agent
free agent
land agent
law enforcement agent
narcotics agent (=a police officer who deals with the problems of narcotics)
press agent
real estate agent
secret agent
shipping company/industry/agent etc
▪ a Danish shipping company
▪ a shipping route
special agent
travel agent
undercover policeman/cop/agent etc
▪ undercover detectives
wetting agent
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
double
▪ A double agent is, therefore, well placed to achieve this.
federal
▪ The cult has been barricaded in a block of buildings since a shootout with federal agents on 28 February.
▪ Associated Press photographers saw six federal agents carrying a struggling, heavyset man on to the plane.
▪ Four federal agents and perhaps up to 15 cult members died.
▪ The plane crash involves Dave with drug dealers, killers and federal agents, all of whom threaten his peace and family.
▪ Pepper still is being sought by federal law-enforcement agents.
▪ When critical habitat is designated, it does not mean federal agents in unmarked helicopters start circling private property.
▪ The bill also would give federal agents authority to obtain wiretaps to detect smuggling and document-fraud crimes.
▪ He now claims federal agents ruined his business and reputation.
free
▪ Charnley is now a free agent.
▪ Helping keep the picture cloudy is Gretzky, who becomes an unrestricted free agent after the season.
▪ Disheartened, she gathered her things together, locked the door behind her and drove home. Free agent, indeed!
▪ This year especially, with 11 free agents in camp, the 49ers needed all the practice time they could get.
▪ Are individuals free agents who shape the social world according to their wills?
▪ Bagwell's value on the free-agent market will be established when he actually becomes a free agent.
▪ Burnett, a nine-year veteran, recently agreed to a free-agent deal in principle with the Carolina Cobras.
▪ Still, it's nowhere near what he would command on the free-agent market.
infectious
▪ The crowded conditions they lived in were ideal for passing on an infectious agent.
▪ Immediate priorities should include improving facilities to deal with infectious agents that require high level microbiological safety precautions. iii.
▪ It seems unlikely to be an infectious agent that is causing the problem as only Koi and Orfe are affected.
▪ Better understanding of animal reservoirs and vectors of infectious agents is important in anticipating and controlling emerging infections.
▪ Whereas blood recipients can easily receive infectious agents, passing them on is difficult.
▪ Estimated costs for some infectious agents are equally staggering.
literary
▪ Quitting after a fracas he had gone to work as a literary agent and had prospered.
▪ Her family, besieged by calls, retained New York literary agent Laurie Liss.
▪ John Pawsey describes a week in the life of a literary agent.
▪ Nina, the literary agent, was on her way to London on business.
▪ I gave the novel to the literary agent Curtis Brown to negotiate with a publisher.
▪ Loretta Barrett, our literary agent, was a successful editor at a major publishing company.
▪ I therefore contacted a literary agent, Al Zuckerman, who had been introduced to me as the brother-in-law of a colleague.
▪ Simple start All seemed relatively simple at the start, recalls literary agent Alexandra Cann.
local
▪ This has allowed the company to develop sales through local agents.
▪ For more information about any of these cruises, contact a local travel agent.
▪ The local agents provide an extensive catalogue of programs available at a nominal charge.
▪ Assistance of our resort representative or local agent.
▪ Tumours arising within the stomach may be in direct contact with local agents, capable of increasing their proliferation.
▪ Some conveyancers encourage local estate agents to forward details of a new transaction before a sale is negotiated.
▪ So, pack your cycle clips and either pick up a brochure from your local travel agent or call us on freephone.
▪ Consult and compare at your local travel agent.
other
▪ Some other agent of change was needed.
▪ He showed the same scant respect for other agents of central power.
▪ Like other enforcement agents, the field man is gatekeeper to the apparatus of control.
▪ Discussion Similar results to those shown in the example were achieved for the other estate agents sentences tested using this simple analyser.
▪ A variety of other agents have shown specific, useful activities, with a fairly limited range of application.
▪ Quite apart from enhancing its reputation, it also reassures other agents that they will not be forgotten.
▪ No other concomitant infective agents have been implicated in the course of the disease to date.
real
▪ It will Bteach real estate agents about the customs of minority groups.
▪ Homeowners who want to sell their homes without a real estate agent can now advertise their residential properties free on the Internet.
▪ The dictionary prompted real estate consultant Joel Ascetto to design a three-hour course to help Rhode Island real estate agents.
▪ The real estate agent said one thing.
▪ Those figures are similar to figures given by real estate agents for several plots in town.
secret
▪ He had spent the afternoon teaching Sun Tzu to his senior officers: the final chapter on the employment of secret agents.
▪ The Secret Service agents seem to like it too.
▪ It was not every night, she reflected, that she dined with a secret agent.
▪ They say that the better the secret agent, the less one hears about him.
▪ Even the bureaucrats involved took to playing games and devising ruses, for all the world like secret agents themselves.
▪ The Secret Service agents adored him, and all kidnap and other threats were investigated with a vengeance.
▪ The secret agent in his place, he wrote, the infiltrator safely ensconced.
▪ A Secret Service agent rushed forward.
special
▪ But Rakovsky kept one or two special agents under his control.
▪ It was only partly the men he had out on the streets and in the bazaars, the special agents like Georgiades.
▪ Among his inventions were flexible saws hidden in shoe laces for special agents.
▪ Their Active Mouthguard is a refreshing mouthwash with a special anti-bacterial agent to fight plaque plus it contains fluoride to strengthen teeth.
undercover
▪ The Fedpol had undercover agents there, naturally, but no official presence.
▪ Michael Osborne told investigators that drugs were so prevalent at Cyberzone that undercover agents needed help from fellow deputies working off-duty.
▪ He's an undercover sabotage agent if ever there was one.
▪ I want to apply to become an undercover agent.
▪ In the guise of travelling labourers they were sent to Wokingham Fair as undercover agents.
▪ The informant showed gun crates marked with the names of Norinco and Poly Technologies to an undercover agent.
▪ Normally, however, he was resident in London, operating as an undercover agent there.
■ NOUN
change
▪ How many heads actively support their staff in becoming change agents?
▪ Change Agents - professional and para-professional workers in the change agent system; 2.
customs
▪ As the dozens of guests arrived at Macbeth's restaurant in Tampa, they were greeted and arrested by customs agents.
▪ Other Customs agents have put corruption in the crosshairs only to find they were firing blanks.
▪ Also patron of accountants, bankers, customs agents, and security guards.
▪ In January 1993, Zimmermann was contacted by two customs agents.
enforcement
▪ Like other enforcement agents, the field man is gatekeeper to the apparatus of control.
▪ Law enforcement agents and reporters were standing within feet of the trash bin where the second blast occurred.
▪ How strict or lenient enforcement agents conceive them to be may well affect their enforcement behaviour.
▪ After the material was delivered, law enforcement agents obtained search warrants and arrested the customers.
▪ The enforcement agent in a compliance system has a wide variety of roles to fulfil.
▪ That raises obvious questions about the priorities of federal drug enforcement agents and prosecutors.
▪ In short, he becomes more credible as a negotiator and as an enforcement agent.
▪ Like other enforcement agents they adapt by employing protective strategies.
estate
▪ Not an estate agent, a valuer, a lawyer or a property slump in sight.
▪ Herndon, a successful Rancho Bernardo real estate agent, works 12 hours a day.
▪ The crucial choice of an estate agent raises the question of whether one is necessary at all.
▪ Your estate agent will negotiate with potential buyers, keeping you informed of offers and how the sale is progressing.
▪ Because of the timescale the estate agents being paid up to £10.95 for each house valued are thought to be rushing the work.
▪ What becomes of it now? Estate agents think it will be a very tasty morsel for an international company.
insurance
▪ If in doubt, ask your insurance agent - and read your policy before disaster strikes.
▪ Mechanics were needed to keep them running, gas stations to fuel them, insurance agents to insure themthe list is endless.
▪ The next afternoon the insurance agent appeared in the office, carrying a bottle of homemade wine.
▪ The list can be prepared by hand, using your own notebook or a booklet available free from many insurance agents.
▪ The defendants, a life assurance company employed the plaintiff as an insurance agent.
▪ He pored over hospital bills and questioned the insurance agent about items that seemed too high.
▪ Robertson, above, also concerned an insurance agent, but there was no such obligation.
▪ Jones for everything else since her March 23 marriage to Michael Jones, a Phoenix-area insurance agent.
intelligence
▪ After working in the prison service, he joined the defence forces before becoming an intelligence agent.
land
▪ If you believe all that some land agents tell you, you might think it would go on for ever.
▪ The council has only ten land agents and they must formulate management agreements for any of the 3800 SSSIs in Britain.
▪ In two of them the outcome was in fact chosen by the patron - the broker land agents.
▪ His father was a land agent who ran an estate in East Anglia belonging to John Bradford's brother.
▪ He'd committed adultery with the wife of the local steward - the land agent for the lord of the manor.
▪ In 1925 he married Lettice, daughter of Cecil Cantley Baker, a land agent.
▪ In 1765 he married Ann Sherwin, daughter of the land agent at Kedleston Hall.
▪ The services of a land agent experienced in mineral agreements may be advisable if large scale exploration is envisaged.
patrol
▪ Border Patrol agents in Nogales say they have been shot at 21 times in the past 15 months.
▪ Border Patrol agent at a sandwich shop on Highway 11, shortly after he dropped the men off.
▪ Detecting suspicious activity in the community is where the bike patrol agents come in handy.
▪ Border Patrol agents and Roseau police moved in on them.
▪ Earlier, it had been one or more a day, Border Patrol agents say.
▪ Standing firm Only in recent years have Border Patrol agents perched themselves so close to the border.
▪ Border Patrol agents there stopped northbound cars and trucks to search for illegal aliens and drugs.
provocateur
▪ Repression, Government spies and agents provocateur were the order of the day.
▪ In Belfast, where five civilians died from violence, there was considerable evidence of agents provocateur.
service
▪ The two, who have pleaded not guilty, deny working as secret service agents.
▪ The Secret Service agents seem to like it too.
▪ Despite everything, Firecracker was fond of his Secret Service agents.
▪ The Secret Service agents adored him, and all kidnap and other threats were investigated with a vengeance.
▪ A Secret Service agent rushed forward.
▪ A Secret Service agent blocked his way.
travel
▪ Most of them employed the services of travel agents, according to Zakhariev.
▪ For more information about any of these cruises, contact a local travel agent.
▪ So, pack your cycle clips and either pick up a brochure from your local travel agent or call us on freephone.
▪ Delta, for instance, is providing refund forms at ticket counters and through travel agents.
▪ Pat, 43, turns travel agent once a year to take a vote among neighbours where they want to go.
▪ It can be done, if you, or your travel agent, are willing to bend airline rules.
▪ However, most travel agents do not deal directly with these companies.
▪ A: It makes sense to patronize a travel agent.
■ VERB
act
▪ She was able to act as a reconciling agent in a way no one could ever have foreseen.
▪ Q.. Are you acting as an agent for another?
▪ Hunters might seek to kill them, but they are quite capable of turning the tables and acting out the agent role.
▪ The gorge was his theater and the railways were delighted to act as his agents.
▪ Marketing itself tends to be a more specialist operation organised through trading companies who act as agents for manufacturers.
▪ The ethylene gas produced by the apple acts as a ripening agent for the persimmons.
▪ But he was prepared to act as Guntram's agent in his dealings with bishop Theodore of Marseilles.
▪ He acts as their advance agent, too, he picks out the banks they are to rob.
become
▪ They can even become unknowing agents of propaganda.
▪ Knowledge was becoming a bonding agent.
▪ This, and similar organisations, may well become agents of environmental change in the not too distant future.
▪ Bagwell's value on the free-agent market will be established when he actually becomes a free agent.
▪ This implies a corresponding commitment by the training institutions to prepare the student to become an agent of change. 6.
▪ The Dolphins are $ 4 million under the cap but also have 17 players set to become unrestricted free agents.
▪ So unless we become the agents of our own destruction, we have hardly begun our allotted span on Earth.
▪ Each traveling employee becomes an independent security agent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a book of memoirs written by a retired MI5 agent, Peter Wright
▪ a travel agent
▪ He had been a secret agent of the enemy all along.
▪ My agent sent me to an audition.
▪ My meeting with the author and his agent did not go well.
▪ The company is the UK agent for a top Danish furniture maker.
▪ The firm has an agent in Sydney who deals with the Australian side of the business.
▪ The licence application must be signed by the applicant or his agent.
▪ Wray was filmed passing money to an enemy agent.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And owners note a perceptible increase in door-hangers, fliers and other pleas from agents to put their homes up for sale.
▪ My agents fixed it for me.
▪ Not an estate agent, a valuer, a lawyer or a property slump in sight.
▪ Number 73 was just a doorway between a travel agent and a small grocery store, with three steps leading up to it.
▪ Residents say they understand that agents have an important job, but they accuse the feds of lies, intimidation and harassment.
▪ She passed on to our agent the name Raphael, though he paid for it with his life.
▪ That raises obvious questions about the priorities of federal drug enforcement agents and prosecutors.
▪ Travel agents often advertise package tours which include a stay at a certain hotel.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Agent

Agent \A"gent\, a. [L. agens, agentis, p. pr. of agere to act; akin to Gr. ? to lead, Icel. aka to drive, Skr. aj. [root]2.] Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action. [Archaic] ``The body agent.''
--Bacon.

Agent

Agent \A"gent\, n.

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

    Heaven made us agents, free to good or ill.
    --Dryden.

  2. 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.

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

  4. (Biochem., Med.) a chemical substance having biological effects; a drug.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
agent

late 15c., "one who acts," from Latin agentem (nominative agens) "effective, powerful," present participle of agere "to set in motion, drive, lead, conduct" (see act (n.)). Meaning "any natural force or substance which produces a phenomenon" is from 1550s. Meaning "deputy, representative" is from 1590s. Sense of "spy, secret agent" is attested by 1916.

agent

1610s, from agent (n.).

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Wiktionary
agent

n. 1 One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor. 2 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. 3 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. 4 (context computing English) 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. 5 (context grammar English) 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".

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WordNet
agent

  1. n. an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect; "their research uncovered new disease agents"

  2. a substance that exerts some force or effect

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

  4. a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission [syn: factor, broker]

  5. any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau [syn: federal agent]

  6. the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the hapening denoted by the verb in the clause [syn: agentive role]

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Wikipedia
Agent

Agent may refer to:

Agent (The Matrix)

Agents are a group of characters in The Matrix franchise. They are sentient computer programs carefully disguised like average-looking human males, displaying a high-level of artificial intelligence.

Agents are representatives within the Matrix fictional universe. They are guardians within the computer-generated world of the Matrix, protecting it from anyone or anything (most often Redpills) that could reveal it as a false reality or threaten it in any other way.

Agents also hunt down and terminate any rogue programs, such as The Keymaker, which no longer serve a purpose to the overall Machine objective. They physically appear human, but have a tendency to speak and act in highly precise and mechanical ways.

Agent (grammar)

In linguistics, a grammatical agent ( abbreviated A) is a thematic relation that refers to the cause or initiator of an event. The agent is a semantic concept distinct from the subject of a sentence. While the subject is determined syntactically, primarily through word order, the agent is determined through its relationship to the action expressed by the verb. The word comes from the present participle agens, agentis ("the one doing") of the Latin verb agere, to "do" or "make".

Agent (comics)
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Agent (economics)

In economics, an agent is an actor and more specifically a decision maker in a model of some aspect of the economy. Typically, every agent makes decisions by solving a well or ill-defined optimization or choice problem.

For example, buyers and sellers are two common types of agents in partial equilibrium models of a single market. Macroeconomic models, especially dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models that are explicitly based on microfoundations, often distinguish households, firms, and governments or central banks as the main types of agents in the economy. Each of these agents may play multiple roles in the economy; households, for example, might act as consumers, as workers, and as voters in the model. Some macroeconomic models distinguish even more types of agents, such as workers and shoppers or commercial banks.

The term agent is also used in relation to principal–agent models; in this case it refers specifically to someone delegated to act on behalf of a principal.

In agent-based computational economics, corresponding agents are "computational objects modeled as interacting according to rules" over space and time, not real people. The rules are formulated to model behavior and social interactions based on stipulated incentives and information. The concept of an agent may be broadly interpreted to be any persistent individual, social, biological, or physical entity interacting with other such entities in the context of a dynamic multi-agent economic system.

Agent (video game)

Agent is an upcoming stealth action video game developed by Rockstar North. In July 2007, Sony announced that Rockstar was working on a new exclusive game for the PlayStation 3, but details of the project, including its title, were not announced until June 2009 during the Sony press conference at E3.

The game is set during the Cold War and will take players into "the world of counter-intelligence, espionage and political assassinations", according to a Rockstar press release. Rockstar has yet to reveal any details regarding the setting other than that it will be set in the late 1970s.

Announced in 2007 exclusively for PS3, little was heard about the game after 2009 and it was thought to have been cancelled, although Take-Two confirmed in May 2011 that Agent was still in development. In July 2013, Take-Two Interactive registered two trademarks for the game. They renewed both in January 2016. __TOC__

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Usage examples of "agent".

Soul towards the higher, the agent, and except in so far as the conjunction is absolutely necessary, to sever the agent from the instrument, the body, so that it need not forever have its Act upon or through this inferior.

Then Fagin pushed hard for some sort of gas attack, which Banish rejected as well, saying that the Abies family might have gas masks themselves and, if so, the agents and marshals going in would be facing a slaughter.

If this unknown acidification agent can be created artificially there will be no more need of males.

The employment of other medicines frequently should be preceded by the administration of an agent of this class, to neutralize excessive acidity in the stomach and bowels.

For example, an anion gap on the electrolyte panel combined with metabolic acidosis on arterial blood gases would prompt an inquiry into ASA, methanol, or ethylene glycol as potential etiologic agents.

I need not mention, have sufficed to paralyze the powers, by putting completely at fault the boasted acumen, of the government agents.

This agent may be administered in doses of from five to ten drops, largely diluted in water or gruel.

One of the best agents employed to make a decided impression upon the vascular system, subdue inflammation, and modify its action, is the fluid extract of veratrum viride, administered in full doses, and repeated until the system shows its effects in a decided manner.

The second informed him that Lakeesh Lord Ado entertained Colonial Pact agents.

If four particles of an agent in a given volume of air killed at least 50 percent of the monkeys exposed to an aerosol, we could assume that ten particles would have an equally lethal effect on human beings.

In time it would become clear to him that a true channeling would be much more compelling and believable than an agent of Satan spouting made-up scripture.

Frank had dated her briefly in high school, but the romance never advanced past petting, and Peggy had married a real estate agent the same month Frank went into the academy.

Such a policy has unquestionably a great deal to recommend it as a transitional means of dealing with the problem of corporate aggrandizement, but let there be no mistake: it is not really a policy of strict neutrality between the small and the large industrial agent.

If she pressed it three times, the two agents in the airmobile parked a mile down the road from the front gate would arrive in under half a minute, but that option was for use only if she got into real trouble.

Such aliment would have been not only highly nutritious, but it would also have acted as an efficient remedial agent for the removal of the scorbutic condition.