Definitions for agent

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agent a·gent

Spelling: [ey-juh nt]

IPA: /ˈeɪ dʒənt/

Agent is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in agent (aegnt).

Definitions for agent

noun

1. a person or business authorized to act on another's behalf:
2. a person or thing that acts or has the power to act.
3. a natural force or object producing or used for obtaining specific results:
4. an active cause; an efficient cause.
5. a person who works for or manages an agency.
6. a person who acts in an official capacity for a government or private agency, as a guard, detective, or spy:
7. a person responsible for a particular action:
8. Grammar. a form or construction, usually a noun or noun phrase, denoting an animate being that performs or causes the action expressed by the verb, as the police in The car was found by the police.
9. Indian agent.
10. a representative of a business firm, especially a traveling salesperson; canvasser; solicitor.
11. Chemistry. a substance that causes a reaction.
12. Pharmacology. a drug or chemical capable of eliciting a biological response.
13. Pathology. any microorganism capable of causing disease.
14. British. a campaign manager; an election agent.

adjective

1. acting; exerting power (opposed to patient).

verb (used with object)

1. to represent (a person or thing) as an agent; act as an agent for:

Origin of agent

1570-80; Latin agent- (stem of agēns (present participle) doing), equivalent to ag- (root of agere to do) + -ent- -ent

Examples for agent

To  my own surprise, last year I started a book club, which includes writers, editors and an agent.

My agent at the time sent that tape to SNL and then they asked me to come in for an audition.

In a neat line, his agent, beginning a bidding war, promised: “Michiko Kakutani will flip for this.”

He and his agent, the Hon. Amos Kendall, determined to rely on private enterprise.

I could complain about how, two out of eight episodes in, agent Carter is in no hurry to introduce its real villain.

The agent of their master applied to a law firm in Cleveland for assistance.

Otherwise the agent will soon put an end to the Association.

The proper business of an ‘agent provocateur’ is to provoke.

How they had employed John Chivery as their sole clerk and agent, seeing to whom he was devoted.

When his agent asked if he missed his wife, his mind flashed to an image of Alison.