meaning of agent
1. Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.
2. One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
3. One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
4. An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a powerful agent.
5. the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the hapening denoted by the verb in the clause
Related Words
agent | agent bank | agent orange | agent provocateur | agent-in-place | agential | agentive role | agentship |
