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

See also

• Special agent

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