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
- 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
- Agent (economics)
- 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
- 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)
- In science
- Agent Orange, a herbicide
- biological agent, an infectious disease that can be used in biological warfare
- In computing
- 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 culture
- Agent 212, a Belgian comic
- Agents, characters in The Matrix
- Secret Agent, a 1936 film
- The Agents, super-human characters in Seven Samurai 20XX
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See also
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