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Agent

noun

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

A representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations.

A substance that exerts some force or effect.

A businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission. Synonyms: broker, factor.

Any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau. Synonym: federal agent.

The semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause. Synonym: agentive role.

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"Agent" Quotes from Famous Books

... man that has your horse is the owner of a row of six three story brick houses in this city, and the probabilities are that he intends to give me an order on his agent for the money on the first of the month when the rents are paid. At all events I imagine the ...

— Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister, - 1857-78 • Ulysses S. Grant

... go together. One rarely finds a dance hall without a bar in it, or a saloon within a few steps of it, and sooner or later those who dance will indulge in drink, which is the devil's best agent in the carrying on of the vile business transacted in, and in connection ...

— From the Ball-Room to Hell • T. A. Faulkner

... his honour presently, "you're a decent woman, and I'll help you. You shall have the forty pounds when you get back to Paris. My agent there will see to it, and you shall have a ...

— Kilgorman - A Story of Ireland in 1798 • Talbot Baines Reed

... Apjohn, by which four thousand pounds is made over to you as a charge upon the property. He stated that you had what might be called a right to that money, and I perfectly agreed with him. I have never doubted about the money since my uncle's will was read. The agent who receives the rents will remit to you one hundred pounds half yearly for the next two years. By that time I shall have been able to raise the money, and you shall then be ...

— Cousin Henry • Anthony Trollope

... removed his family to Gloucester, Massachusetts. At the same time, recognizing with many a pang that a city like Gloucester was no place for him to keep a seal in, he sold the Pup, at a most consoling price indeed, to the agent of an English animal trainer. With the prospect of shortly becoming the cynosure of all eyes at Shepherd's Bush or Earl's Court, the Pup was shipped on ...

— Kings in Exile • Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

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