Agent
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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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