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Agent can mean:

Agent (grammar), one of the thematic roles: the participant of a situation that carries out an action. Replaces "subject" in placement typology.
Tuition agent, a person who represents a tuition agency in searching for suitable tutors for students.
Agent (law), a person authorised to act on behalf of another person
- literary agent, a person who represents a writer
- sports agent, a professional who represents an athlete
- talent agent, a person who finds jobs for actors, models, and other people in various entertainment businesses.
- Press agent, publicist who acts on behalf of a client on all matters involving public relations
- Foreign agent, someone registered with the U.S. Justice Department as mandated by the Foreign Agents Registration Act
Agent (economics)
Special agent, generally, a federal criminal or non-criminal investigator or detective.
Espionage, secret agent, a spy
Double agent, in spying
Election agent, a person responsible for a candidate's campaign
Free agent, a sports player who is out of contract
Real estate broker, or real estate agent
Yacht broker, or yacht agent
Yacht charter broker, or yacht charter agent
Agent provocateur, a person assigned to provoke unrest, violence, debate, or argument by or within a group while acting as a member of the group but covertly representing the interests of another
Agent noun (or nomen agentis), one of the derivatemes (a topic from linguistic morphology)
Rational agent (in philosophy), deliberate being

In science

Agent Orange, a herbicide
biological agent, an infectious disease that can be used in biological warfare

In technology

Robot a mechanical or virtual agent
Forté Agent, a newsreader and email client
software agent, software that acts on behalf of a user
- intelligent agent, an intelligent software agent
- user agent, a client application used with a particular network protocol

In fiction

Agent 212, a Belgian comic
Agents, characters in The Matrix
Secret Agent (1936 film), a 1936 film
The Agents, superhuman characters in Seven Samurai 20XX
Agent 47, a character from the computer game series Hitman

In finance

Agent, a financial institution acting as the operational intermediary in a syndicated loan between the syndicate banks and the borrower. The most common form is the "Administrative Agent".

In popular culture

Polish version of The Mole.

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Robot

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