🇫🇷 fr en 🇬🇧

agente noun {f}

  /a.ʒɑ̃t/
  • Celle qui est chargée d’une fonction, d’une mission, soit par un gouvernement soit par une administration, soit par un ou plusieurs particuliers
 agent, agentess
agente comptable
accountant
agente dormante
sleeper, sleeper agent
agente secrète
secret agent
agente double
double agent
agente immobilière
real estate agent, estate agent, realtor
agente de probation
probation officer
agente provocatrice
agente provocateuse, agente provocatrice
agente de bord
flight attendant
agente commerciale
commercial agent, commission agent

🇬🇧 en fr 🇫🇷

agent noun

  /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒənt/
  • 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.
 agent, agente
  • 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).
 agent, espion
  • One who exerts power, or has the power to act.
  • An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect.
  • (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.
 agent
  • (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".
 complément d'agent, agent

agentive adjective

  /əˈd͡ʒɛntɪv/
  • (grammar) Indicating an agent or agency (as -er in lexicographer).
 agentif

agentive noun

  /əˈd͡ʒɛntɪv/
  • (linguistics) A word having an agentive construction.
 agentif

agentivity

agentivité

agentic adjective

  /eɪˈd͡ʒɛn.tɪk/ , /əˈd͡ʒɛn.tɪk/
  • (psychology, by extension, of a psychological state of a person) That obeys authority (introduced in Milgram's theory).
 en mode mission
agente provocateuse
agente provocatrice
agente provocatrice
agente provocatrice
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