agent
noun
/ˈeɪ.d͡ʒənt/
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/ˈeɪ.d͡ʒɛnt/
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- 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.
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Agent,
Agentin
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- An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect.
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Wirkstoff
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- (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".
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Agens
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- 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).
- (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.
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Agent
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agentivity
noun
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- (grammar) The state or condition of being agentive.
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Agentivität
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