Definition of Agent

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Definition of Agent

Agent

Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.

One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.

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.

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.

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Agent Quotations

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.
Groucho Marx

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
William Shakespeare

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.
Sun Tzu

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.
David Ogilvy

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Woodrow Wilson

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
Fred Allen

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
Frank Sinatra

Agent Translations

agent in Danish is agent
agent in Dutch is vertegenwoordiger, dealer, agent
agent in French is agent
agent in German is Agent {m}, Agent {m}, Vertreter {m}
agent in Italian is agente
agent in Latin is procurator
agent in Portuguese is agente
agent in Spanish is represantante, agente
agent in Swedish is agent, ombud

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