agent

From Latin agēns, present active participle of agere (“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒənt/, /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒɛnt/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

agent (plural agents)

2. One who exerts power, or has the power to act.
   • 1862, Brigham Young, “Call for Teams to Go to the Frontiers, etc.”, in Journal of Discourses, volume 9:

     Seeing we are so wonderfully endowed with priceless gifts by our Heavenly Father, will he not require usury at our hands? He will. But he has made us agents to ourselves, which makes us responsible for the way in which we use the talents he has given us, for the manner we expend the gold and silver, the wheat and fine flour, the cattle upon a thousand hills, and the wine and oil, for they all belong to Him

4. One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to act on behalf of or in behalf of another, such as to transact business for them.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 36, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     I see in him [Moby Dick] outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.

6. A person who looks for work for another person and brokers a deal between the hiree and hirer.
   • 4 June 2016, Press Association, Ronald Koeman’s agent says Dutchman has agreed terms with Everton

     Ronald Koeman has agreed a deal with Everton to become their new manager, his agent has reportedly told Dutch media. The agent Rob Jansen said, according to the popular Voetbal International website, that it was now down to Southampton and Everton to agree a compensation package for the Dutchman, who has a year remaining on his contract at St Mary’s.

8. Someone who works for an intelligence agency: whether an officer or employee thereof or anyone else who agrees to help their efforts (for ideology, for money, as blackmailee, or otherwise).
10. An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect.
    • 1807, James Edward Smith, chapter 11, in An introduction to physiological and systematical botany:

      So far seems to be the work of chemistry alone; at least we have no right to conclude that any other agent interferes; since hay, when it happens to imbibe moisture, exhibits nearly the same processes."

12. (computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
14. (grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".

    Coordinate terms: patient; subject, object, rheme, theme

    • 2009, Tarsee Li, The Verbal System of the Aramaic of Daniel: An Explanation in the Context of Grammaticalization, page 58:

      A verb is typically described as active when its subject is the agent or actor. By contrast, a verb is said to be passive when the subject does not perform the action, but is the patient, target, or undergoer of the action.

16. (gambling) A cheat who is assisted by dishonest casino staff.
    • 1978, John Scarne, Scarne's guide to casino gambling, page 108:

      Nevada casinos are fleeced out of millions of dollars yearly by agents (cheats acting as players) in collusion with crooked Black Jack dealers and pit bosses.

18. (usually US, capitalized) A respectful term of address for an agent, especially a non-police law enforcement agent.

• (one who exerts power): See also Thesaurus:doer
• (one who acts in place of another): See also Thesaurus:deputy
• (person who looks for work for another person): manager, representative, rep
• (someone who works for an intelligence agency): See also Thesaurus:spy
• (grammar): actor, performer

• (antonym(s) of “grammar”): patient, recipient, undergoer

• act
• action
• agency

• proxy

• “agent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “agent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• Tegan, ganté, genta

agent (definite accusative agenti, plural agentlər)

1. agent

Declension of agent
	singular	plural
nominative	agent	agentlər
definite accusative	agenti	agentləri
dative	agentə	agentlərə
locative	agentdə	agentlərdə
ablative	agentdən	agentlərdən
definite genitive	agentin	agentlərin

Possessive forms of agent
	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	agentim	agentlərim
sənin (“your”)	agentin	agentlərin
onun (“his/her/its”)	agenti	agentləri
bizim (“our”)	agentimiz	agentlərimiz
sizin (“your”)	agentiniz	agentləriniz
onların (“their”)	agenti or agentləri	agentləri
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	agentimi	agentlərimi
sənin (“your”)	agentini	agentlərini
onun (“his/her/its”)	agentini	agentlərini
bizim (“our”)	agentimizi	agentlərimizi
sizin (“your”)	agentinizi	agentlərinizi
onların (“their”)	agentini or agentlərini	agentlərini
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	agentimə	agentlərimə
sənin (“your”)	agentinə	agentlərinə
onun (“his/her/its”)	agentinə	agentlərinə
bizim (“our”)	agentimizə	agentlərimizə
sizin (“your”)	agentinizə	agentlərinizə
onların (“their”)	agentinə or agentlərinə	agentlərinə
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	agentimdə	agentlərimdə
sənin (“your”)	agentində	agentlərində
onun (“his/her/its”)	agentində	agentlərində
bizim (“our”)	agentimizdə	agentlərimizdə
sizin (“your”)	agentinizdə	agentlərinizdə
onların (“their”)	agentində or agentlərində	agentlərində
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	agentimdən	agentlərimdən
sənin (“your”)	agentindən	agentlərindən
onun (“his/her/its”)	agentindən	agentlərindən
bizim (“our”)	agentimizdən	agentlərimizdən
sizin (“your”)	agentinizdən	agentlərinizdən
onların (“their”)	agentindən or agentlərindən	agentlərindən
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	agentimin	agentlərimin
sənin (“your”)	agentinin	agentlərinin
onun (“his/her/its”)	agentinin	agentlərinin
bizim (“our”)	agentimizin	agentlərimizin
sizin (“your”)	agentinizin	agentlərinizin
onların (“their”)	agentinin or agentlərinin	agentlərinin

• “agent” in Obastan.com.

Borrowed from Latin agentem. First attested in the 14th century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əˈʒen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əˈʒent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈd͡ʒent]

agent m or f by sense (plural agents)

1. agent

• agent doble
• agent secret

• agència

• “agent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “agent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “agent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From English agent.

agent

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) sales agent

Latin agentis (“acting”).

agent

1. agent

• agentlik

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [ˈaɡɛnt]

agent m anim

1. agent, spy (someone who works for an intelligence agency)
2. agent, representative (someone who represents a company)

agent m anim or m inan

1. (computing) agent (program that acts on someone's behalf)

when animate:

when inanimate:

• See akt

• “agent”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “agent”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “agent”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

From Latin agēns.

agent c (singular definite agenten, plural indefinite agenter)

1. agent (all senses)

• spion

• agens
• kommissionær
• repræsentant
• subjekt

Borrowed from French agent, from Latin agēns (“one who acts”).

• IPA^(key): /aːˈɣɛnt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: a‧gent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

agent m (plural agenten, diminutive agentje n, feminine agente)

1. a police officer

   Toen confisceerde de agent de wiet en rookte het in één keer op.

   Then the police officer confiscated the weed and smoked it all in one go.

   Synonym: politieman

   1. a police officer of the low(est) rank, constable, junior officer

      Synonym: politieagent

2. an undercover agent; intelligence officer, secret agent
3. an agent (one who acts on behalf of another)
   1. a broker

      Synonym: makelaar

   2. a middleman, surrogate

• agentschap
• beursagent
• verzekeringsagent
• wisselagent

• agens

• Afrikaans: agent
• → Caribbean Javanese: akhèn
• → Indonesian: agen

• gaten

Inherited from Middle French agent, from Latin agentem.

• IPA^(key): /a.ʒɑ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

agent m (plural agents, feminine agente)

1. agent

• agence

• → Turkish: ajan
• → Persian: آژان (âžân)

• “agent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• étang
• gante, ganté
• géant
• gênât

Unadapted borrowing from English agent.

agent m (invariable, feminine agente)

1. agent

• tange, tenga

Borrowed from Polish agent.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡɛnt/
• Rhymes: -aɡɛnt
• Syllabification: a‧gent

agent m inan (female equivalent agentka)

1. (espionage) agent (someone who works for an intelligence agency)

   Synonym: szpijona

2. (business) representative (company agent)

   Synonyms: przedstawicél, przedstôwca

• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “agent”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “agent”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[2]
• “agent”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡent/, [ˈäɡɛn̪t̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.d͡ʒent/, [ˈäːd͡ʒen̪t̪]

agent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of agō

From Latin agens, genitive agentis.

agent m (definite singular agenten, indefinite plural agenter, definite plural agentene)

1. an agent

• “agent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “agent” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Latin agens, genitive agentis.

agent m (definite singular agenten, indefinite plural agentar, definite plural agentane)

1. an agent

• “agent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from German Agent,^[1][2] from French agent, from Middle French agent, from Latin agēns. Doublet of agens. First attested in 1609.^[3]

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡɛnt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɡɛnt
• Syllabification: a‧gent

agent m pers (female equivalent agentka, diminutive agencik or agenciak)

1. (espionage) agent (someone who works for an intelligence agency)

   Synonyms: szpieg, wywiadowca

2. commission agent (agent entrusted with the possession of goods to be sold in the agent's name)

   Synonym: ajent

3. (business) representative (company agent)

   Synonym: przedstawiciel

4. (acting, literature) impresario, literary agent

   agent literacki ― a literary agent

5. (espionage) officer, peeper, secret agent

   Synonyms: cichociemny, tajniak

6. (Middle Polish) legal defense assistant [from the middle of the 17th century to the middle of the 18th century]^[3]

   agent trybunału ― a tribunal assistant

• agent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• agent in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “agient”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “agent”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861

• aghent

Borrowed from French agent.

• IPA^(key): [aˈdʒent]

agent m (plural agenți, feminine equivalent agentă)

1. agent

• agent in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

• awgent

From Latin agēns, present active participle of agere (“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːdʒənt/, /ˈɑː-/

agent (plural agents)

1. (law) solicitor

agent (third-person singular simple present agents, present participle agentin, simple past agentit, past participle agentit)

1. to act as law agent

• “agent, n. & v. tr.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

From Latin agēns, present active participle of agere (“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”).

• IPA^(key): /ǎɡent/
• Hyphenation: a‧gent

àgent m (Cyrillic spelling а̀гент)

1. agent

• “agent”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

• IPA^(key): /aˈɡɛnːt/

• Audio:

  (file)

agent c

1. an agent

• agentfilm
• agentkontor
• agentprovision
• agentroman
• agentskap
• agentur
• agentverksamhet
• handelsagent

• aktör
• ombud

• agent in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• agnet, genat, tagen, tagne

agent

1. Latin spelling of агент (ağent)