Agent ˈeɪdʒənt Person Deals House Act Work I

• an insurance agent
• 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.
• a theatrical/literary agent

agent

1. a person whose job is to act for, or manage the affairs of, other people in business, politics, etc.
• an insurance agent
• 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.
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 press agent
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/press-agent
• a theatrical/literary agent
• = secret agent
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/secret-agent
• an enemy agent
3. a person or thing that has an important effect on a situation
• The charity has been an agent for social change.
4. a chemical or a substance that produces an effect or a change or is used for a particular purpose
• cleaning/oxidizing agents
5. 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_1

Extra Examples

• I have an agent who deals with all my contracts.
• I told him I couldn’t stop him and that he was a free agent.
• If you want to get published, get yourself an agent!
• She got the work through an agent.
• The charity is an agent for social change.
• The company has developed sales through local agents in key markets.
• They were advised by the real estate agent that their house would not be saleable.
• an agent for a shipping company
• He was convicted of acting as an agent for the Soviet Union.
• He would have made a good secret agent —a James Bond type.
• She was operating as an undercover agent in London.

Word Origin

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