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Originally Posted by Orion What is this agent? | agent |ˈājənt|
noun
1 a person who acts on behalf of another, in particular
• a person who manages business, financial, or contractual matters for an actor, performer, or writer.
• a person or company that provides a particular service, typically one that involves organizing transactions between two other parties : a travel agent | shipping agents | a real-estate agent.
• a person who obtains information for a government or other official body, typically in secret : a trained intelligence agent | KGB agents | an FBI agent.
2 a person or thing that takes an active role or produces a specified effect : agents of change | bleaching agents.
• Grammar the doer of an action, typically expressed as the subject of an active verb or in a by phrase with a passive verb.
ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense [someone or something that produces an effect] ): from Latin agent- ‘doing,’ from agere.
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