agent
agent Lexical Profile
agent Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A person who acts on behalf of another person, group, or business to manage their commercial, legal, or professional affairs.
"The literary agent negotiated a lucrative publishing contract for the debut novelist."
An official or operative employed by a government intelligence service or law enforcement agency to conduct investigations or gather confidential information.
"Federal agents spent months investigating the complex financial fraud scheme."
A person, substance, or natural force that produces a specific physical, chemical, or social effect.
"Baking powder serves as a leavening agent that causes the cake batter to rise."
In computing and linguistics, an autonomous software program that performs tasks independently, or the semantic role of the animate entity that initiates the action of a verb.
"In a passive sentence, the grammatical agent is often introduced by the preposition 'by'."
• Rhymes for agent
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French or directly from Latin agens (genitive agentis), the present participle of agere, meaning 'to set in motion, drive, or do.'