Agent Person ˈeɪdʒənt Deals Act Extra Examples Work

• our agent in new york deals with all us sales.
• if you're going to rent out your house while you're abroad, you'll need someone to act as your agent here.
• an insurance agent
• typical agent's fees are around 6 percent of the sale price.

agent

1. a person whose job is to act for, or manage the affairs of, other people in business, politics, etc.
• Our agent in New York deals with all US sales.
• If you're going to rent out your house while you're abroad, you'll need someone to act as your agent here.
• an insurance agent
• Typical agent's fees are around 6 percent of the sale price.

Extra Examples

• I have an agent who deals with all my contracts.
• The company has developed sales through local agents in key markets.
• an agent for a shipping company
2. a person whose job is to arrange work for an actor, musician, sports player, etc. or to find somebody who will publish a writer’s work
• SEE ALSO literary agent
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/literary-agent
• a theatrical/literary agent

Extra Examples

• If you want to get published, get yourself an agent!
• She got the work through an agent.
3. a person who works secretly to obtain information for a government or other organization
• SEE ALSO double agent
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/double-agent
• He was arrested by federal agents.
• an enemy/undercover agent
• CIA/FBI agents

Extra Examples

• She was operating as an undercover agent in London.
• He was convicted of acting as an agent for the Soviet Union.
4. a person or thing that has an important effect on a situation
• The charity has been an agent for social change.
5. a chemical or a substance that produces an effect or a change or is used for a particular purpose
• SEE ALSO nerve agent
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/nerve-agent
• chemical/biological agents
• cleaning/oxidizing agents
6. the person or thing that does an action (expressed as the subject of an active verb, or in a ‘by’ phrase with a passive verb)
• COMPARE patient
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/patient_2

Word Origin

• late Middle English (in the sense ‘someone or something that produces an effect’): from Latin agent- ‘doing’, from agere.