Agent is an English word with synonyms like official or factor. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Agent in a sentence
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Agent meaning
- One who exerts power, or has the power to act.
- 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.
- A person who looks for work for another person and brokers a deal between the hiree and hirer.
Synonyms of Agent
Using Agent
- The main meaning on this page is: One who exerts power, or has the power to act. | 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. | A person who looks for work for another person and brokers a deal between the hiree and hirer.
- Useful related words include: causal agent, semantic role, agentive role, functionary.
- In the example corpus, agent often appears in combinations such as: free agent, agent and, the agent.
Example sentences (20)
If the virtual agent can’t solve the caller’s issue, it hands him or her off to a human agent — a feature Google calls “agent assist” — and presents the agent with information relevant to the call at hand.
In multiagent universes Multi-agent systems sometimes use speech act labels to express the intent of an agent when it sends a message to another agent.
Operation A message transfer agent receives mail from either another MTA, a mail submission agent (MSA), or a mail user agent (MUA).
According to an earlier email from FBI Supervisory Special Agent Shayne Buchwald in Maryland, McGrath was wounded during "an agent-involved shooting" about 6:30 p.m. in a commercial area on the southwestern outskirts of Knoxville, Tennessee.
A licensed insurance agent, and the insurer she represents, owe a duty of care to a customer to explain coverages but neither the agent nor the insurer has a fiduciary duty to an insured under Connecticut law.
An American agent, a traitor, and an agent of foreign powers.
By using the franchise tag to keep Jackson off the free agent market, DeCosta tied up $32.4 million when the free agent shopping window opened in March.
Choose an appointed agent: now is the time for companies to make their accountants an appointed agent if they haven’t already done so.
Even before that offer was made, Roman Torres says she implored both the agent and the agent's supervisor, who had gotten involved and was aware of the situation, "Is there anyone else I can talk to?
Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned by nerve agent Novichok in Salisbury in Wiltshire in 2018.
He’s playing out the final season of a four-year free-agent contract he signed with Washington as a free agent in 2019, and his cap hit is $1.5 million per season.
In 2022, a D.C. district judge ruled that a suspected foreign agent could not be held liable for failing to register as a foreign agent because he stopped lobbying on behalf of the Chinese government before the lawsuit.
Listing agent Suzanne Gignilliat, who represented the Prewitts in buying the mansion in 2012, is the listing agent.
Since nearly every NFL team carries three or more quarterbacks into training camp, expect the Patriots to bring in another to complement their current duo, be it a veteran free agent signing, draft pick or undrafted free agent.
The clip shows Richard Madden’s Agent Kane trying his best to remind Priyanka’s Agent Sinh of her past as a member of the titular spy organisation.
The cornerstone of the plaintiff’s argument is that NAR is forcing homesellers to pay an inflated commission that is then split between their agent and the buyer’s agent.
The movie centers around a CIA black ops assassin called Six () and fellow agent Dani () as they are hunted down by a psychopathic former CIA agent, Lloyd Hansen ().
The pair will play Agent Tayo Miller and Agent Ashley Poet, respectively, as they go through each time together, from training at the academy to years later of being in the thick of an ever-evolving justice system.
The selling agent at Saxton Mee said the house is “one of the finest properties I have been privileged to market for sale in nearly 40 years as an Estate Agent”.
Agent Maria Contessa “Coco” D. Lastimoso, a special agent of the National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7) specializing in cybercrime, also shared her perspective on heinous acts similar to those Kieth and his friends experienced.
Common combinations with agent
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- free agent 33×
- agent and 25×
- the agent 24×
- an agent 17×
- special agent 11×
- nerve agent 11×
- agent in 11×
- estate agent 10×
- agent is 10×
- agent of 9×