agent — meaning in English
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English meaning
- agent noun A person who acts on behalf of another, especially in business or legal matters.
- impresario noun A person who organises and manages public entertainment, especially concerts, opera, or theatre.
- representative adjective Typical of a larger group; standing for the qualities of that group.
Senses
agent is used for these senses in English:
- agent 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).
- agent (computing) 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.
- impresario A manager or producer in the entertainment industry, especially music or theatre.
- literary agent A person who represents writers and their written works to publishers and film producers and assists in the sale and deal negotiation of the same.
- representative A company agent who visits potential purchasers; a salesman. [from 20th c.]
- representative Something (especially a living organism) regarded as typical of its class; a type. [from 17th c.]
- secret agent A member of an intelligence agency whose identity or affiliation is kept confidential.
agent — full definition
- noun A person who acts on behalf of another, especially in business or legal matters.
- noun A person who works, often secretly, for a government or intelligence organization.
- noun A substance or force that produces an effect.