1862, Brigham Young, “Call for Teams to Go to the Frontiers, etc.”, inJournal of Discourses, volume 9:
Seeing we are so wonderfully endowed with priceless gifts by our Heavenly Father, will he not require usury at our hands? He will. But he has made usagents to ourselves, which makes us responsible for the way in which we use the talents he has given us, for the manner we expend the gold and silver, the wheat and fine flour, the cattle upon a thousand hills, and the wine and oil, for they all belong to Him
(law) One who acts for, or in the place of, another (theprincipal), by that person's authority; someoneentrusted to acton behalf of orin behalf of another, such as to transact business for them.
I see in him [Moby Dick] outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whaleagent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.
2024 April 22, Jeanne Sahadi, “What a buyer’s agent will do for you when you’re looking for a new home”, inCNN Business[1]:
Having a good buyer’sagent also means having someone who is knowledgeable about the local real estate market and who has the skills and competence to negotiate with the seller’sagent on your behalf.
A person who looks for work for another person and brokers a deal between thehiree andhirer.
Ronald Koeman has agreed a deal with Everton to become their new manager, hisagent has reportedly told Dutch media. Theagent Rob Jansen said, according to the popular Voetbal International website, that it was now down to Southampton and Everton to agree a compensation package for the Dutchman, who has a year remaining on his contract at St Mary’s.
@Gary, are you aPAPagent? ... =) trying to incite rebellion and revolution on this site so that the govt will have an excuse to take down this site?
2025 January 26, Priscilla Alvarez and Rosa Flores, “Trump administration launches nationwide immigration enforcement blitz”, inCNN[2]:
In the Atlanta suburb of Lilburn, ICEagents arrested Walter Valladares, a 53-year-old undocumented immigrant from Honduras, according to family members who spoke with CNN.
An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect.
1807, James Edward Smith, chapter 11, inAn introduction to physiological and systematical botany:
So far seems to be the work of chemistry alone; at least we have no right to conclude that any otheragent interferes; since hay, when it happens to imbibe moisture, exhibits nearly the same processes."
Agents are means-rational insofar as they effectively pursue the goals they currently have—but means-rationality (even under a narrow-scope interpretation) does not prohibitagents from changing their goals or dropping them entirely.
(computing) In theclient-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of aclient orserver. 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.
(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".
2009, Tarsee Li,The Verbal System of the Aramaic of Daniel: An Explanation in the Context of Grammaticalization, page58:
A verb is typically described as active when its subject is theagent or actor. By contrast, a verb is said to be passive when the subject does not perform the action, but is the patient, target, or undergoer of the action.
1978, John Scarne,Scarne's guide to casino gambling, page108:
Nevada casinos are fleeced out of millions of dollars yearly byagents (cheats acting as players) in collusion with crooked Black Jack dealers and pit bosses.
(US) A law enforcement officer tasked with enforcing a specific field of law.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives officers are just simply referred to as "ATFagents".
^Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “agent”, inEtymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
↑3.03.1Teresa Sokołowska (21.05.2009), “AGENT”, inElektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
