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Definition: Agent |
AgentNoun1. An active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect; "their research uncovered new disease agents". 2. A substance that exerts some force or effect. 3. A representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations. 4. A businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission. 5. Any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "agent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Agent |
Building & Civil Engineering | In a civil engineering or large building contract, the person who legally represents the contract and acts for him on all occasions. He is often a civil engineer. Source: European Union. (references) |
Economics | A person or legal entity authorized to act on behalf of another. (references) |
Environment | Any physical, chemical, or biological entity that can be harmful to an organism (synonymous with stressors.). (references) |
Finance | A person who acts for or in place of another with authority delegated by the other person. (references) |
Insurance | A person who solicits an application for insurance upon the life of another. He is legally an agent for the company, but is not authorized to. . . alter. . . contracts. Source: European Union. (references) |
Law | A person who, not being a direct employee, sells on behalf of a company. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Agent Is man a free agent ? This is a question of theology, which has long been mooted. The point is this: If God fore-ordains all our actions, they must take place as he fore-ordains them, and man acts as a watch or clock; but if, on the other hand, man is responsible for his actions, he must be free to act as his inclination leads him. Those who hold the former view are called necessitarians; those who hold the latter, libertarians. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Military | In intelligence usage, one who is recruited, trained, controlled and employed to obtain and report information. See also source. (references) |
Mining | A. The manager of a mining property b. On a civil engineering contract, the responsible representative of the contractor, acting for him or her in all matters c. Before nationalization in Great Britain, the term referred to the chief official of a large coal mine or group of mines under the same ownership. After nationalization, the equivalent term is group manager d. A chemical added to pulp to produce desired changes in climate of thesystem. (references) |
Occupations | Directs production, distribution, and marketing operations for branch plant, or assigned territory of industrial organization: Coordinates production, distribution, warehousing, and sales in accordance with policies, principles, and procedures established by MANAGER, INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION (any industry) 189.117-022. Confers with customers and representatives of associated industries to evaluate and promote improved and expanded services in area. Develops plans for efficient use of materials, machines, and employees. Reviews production costs and product quality, and modifies production and inventory control programs to maintain and enhance profitable operation of division. Reviews operations of competing organizations, and plans and directs sales program to develop new markets, using sales aids, advertising, promotional programs, and field services. Directs personnel program. Directs preparation of accounting records. Recommends budgets to management. May be designated according to title of area of jurisdiction as Manager, District (any industry); Manager, Local (any industry); Manager, Regional (any industry). (references) |
Post & Telecom | The part of a networked system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a software entity. Source: European Union. (references) |
Shipping | A person authorized to transact business for and in the name of another person or company. Types of agent are: (1) brokers, (2) commission merchants, (3) resident buyers, (4) sales agents, 5) manufacturer's representatives. (references) |
Statistics | Any entity, biological, mechanical or otherwise, that can perform actions, intelligent or not. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An agent is an autonomous entity with an ontological commitment and agenda of its own.The term originated in philosophy.
Each agent possesses the ability to act autonomously; this is an important distinction because a simple act of obedience to a command does not qualify an entity as an agent.
An agent may interact or negotiate with its environment and/or with other agents. It may make decisions, such as whether to trust and whether to cooperate with others.
Types of Agents
The term agent is also used for sentient programs found in the Matrix that battle the humans fighting for freedom.
- Agent, Law - In law an agent is a person authorized to act for another, with delegated authority, such as a person holding a power of attorney. Examples:
- real estate agent
- secret agent
- software agent - The term is also used in computer science to refer to pieces of autonomous, or semi-autonomous proactive and reactive, computer software. Examples:
- user agent
- mail transfer agent
- SNMP agent
- DAML
- daemons in Unix-style systems. See the mascot for BSD systems. CTSS first named daemons; see also demon.
- In unix-style networking servers, httpd is a demon which implements the Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol at the root of the World Wide Web.
- Brokers - For some Agent-based computer systems, 'Object Request Brokers' or ORBs complement and speed up the response time of the system, by brokering the requests of the system.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Agent."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
To be considered a bonafide agent, and agent (software, hardware or otherwise) must exhibit the behavioural qualities of agenthood. Essentially this means perceiving the software environment through sensors and acting on the environment through actuators. This must be accomplished autonomously.A mail transfer agent for example decides when to transfer and deliver the mail, and does so asynchronously and independently from the behaviours of other agents in the system.
Agents generally --and including some software agents-- have the ability to learn and to reason, logically or otherwise. They may discover facts and rules about the world or about others and may assess and argue these truths and may alter their ontology.
= Agent Environments =
Environments in which agents operate can be defined in different ways. It is helpful to view the following definitions as referring to the way the environment appears from the point of view of the agent itself.
Observable & partially observable
In order for an agent to be considered an agent some part of the environment - relevant to the action being considered - must be observable. In some cases (particularly in software) all of the environment will be observable by the agent. This, while useful to the agent, will generally only be true only of relatively simple environments.Deterministic, stochastic & strategic
An environment that is fully deterministic is one in which the subsequent state of the environment is wholly dependent on the preceding state and the actions of the agent. If an element of interference or uncertainty occurs then the environment is stochastic. Note that a deterministic yet partially observable environment will appear to be stochastic to the agent.
And environment state wholly determined by the preceding state and the actions of multiple agents is called strategic.
Episodic & sequential
This refers to the task environment of the agent. If each task that the agent must perform does not rely upon past performance, and will not effect future performance then it is episodic. Otherwise it is sequential.
Static & dynamic
A static environment, as the name suggests, is one that does not change from one state to the next while the agent is considering its course of action. In other words - the only changes to the environment as those caused by the agent itself. A dynamic environment will change - and thus if an agent does not respond in a timely manner, this counts as a choice to do nothing.
Discrete & continuous
This distinction refers to whether or not the environment is composed of a finite or infinite number of possible states. A discrete environment will have a finite number of possible states, however, if this number is extrememly high, then it becomes virtually continuous from the agents perspective.
Single-agent & multiple agent
An environment is only considered multiple agent if the agent under consideration must act co operatively with another agent to achieve some task or goal. Otherwise another agent is simply viewed as a stochastically behaving part of the environment.
Overview of environments
Observable------rising order of complexity--> Partially observable
Deterministic ----------------------------------> Stochastic
Episodic----------------------------------------> Sequential
Static------------------------------------------> Dynamic
Discrete----------------------------------------> Continuous
Single-agent------------------------------------> Multiple agentSee also:
Reference books:
- Machine learning
- Control theory
- Free will and determinism
- Semantic Web
Russell, S., & Norvig, R. (2003) Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 2nd edition Prentice Hall: New JerseySource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Artificial intelligence agent."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| agt. | English | Agent | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: AgentSynonyms: broker (n), factor (n), federal agent (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agent | Noun: doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator; executor, executrix;Noun: doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator; executor, executrix; practitioner, worker, stager. |
Cause | Noun: cause, origin, source, principle, element; occasioner, prime mover, primum mobile; vera causa; author; (producer); mainspring; agent; leaven; groundwork, foundation; (support). |
Commission | Agent, delegate, consignee. |
Consignee | Negotiator, go-between; middleman; under agent, employe; servant; referee, arbitrator;. (judge). |
Functionary, placeman, curator; treasurer; factor, bailiff, clerk, secretary, attorney, advocate, solicitor, proctor, broker, underwriter, commission agent, auctioneer, one's man of business; factotum; (director); caretaker; dalal, dubash, garnishee, gomashta. | |
Agent, delegate; commissary, commissioner; emissary, envoy, commissionaire; messenger. | |
Director | Secretary, secretary of state; Reis Effendi; vicar; (deputy); steward, factor; agent; bailiff, middleman; foreman, clerk of works; landreeve; factotum, major-domo, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd, croupier; proctor, procurator. |
Marriage | Marriage broker; matrimonial agency, matrimonial agent, matrimonial bureau, matchmaker; schatchen. |
Motive | Prompter, tempter; seducer, seductor; instigator, firebrand, incendiary; Siren, Circe; agent provocateur; lobbyist. |
Physical Insensibility | Anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral; nitrous oxide, laughing gas; exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen; refrigeration. |
Servant | Secretary; under secretary, assistant secretary; clerk; subsidiary; agent; subaltern; underling, understrapper; man. |
Warning | Watchtower, beacon, signal post; lighthouse; (indication of locality). sentinel, sentry; watch, watchman; watch and ward; watchdog, bandog, housedog; patrol, patrolman, vedette, picket, bivouac, scout, spy, spial; undercover agent, mole, plainclothesman; advanced guard, rear guard; lookout. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Because of you, I'm no longer an Agent of this system (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) I'm married to an American agent. (Notorious; writing credit: Ben Hecht) I'm Agent Johnson, this is Special Agent Johnson (Die Hard; writing credit: Jeb Stuart) The only active agent who ever lost a president (In the Line of Fire; writing credit: Jeff Maguire) I thought I'd go as a government agent who's going to shoot and kill General Bloodbath McGrath (Wild Wild West; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Agent Cody Banks (2003) Double Agent 73 (1974) Agent nr 1 (1972) 5 och Kvarten - fattaruväl! Agent 0 (1968) CID Agent 302 (1968) | |
Song Titles | Secret Agent Man (performing artist: Johnny Rivers) Travel Agent (performing artist: Monty Python) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | This illustration with and without text, explains how a normal cell becomes a cancer cell. An oncogene in a normal cell appears to regulate and influence cell growth and division. When a cancer causing agent affects a cell's DNA and the oncogene is activated, a cancer cell develops. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Jane Hurd (artist). |  | Agent of filariasis. Credit: CDC. |
 | Brugia malayi, agent of filariasis. Anterior end. Parasite. Credit: CDC. |  | Fish and Wildlife Service Patrol Vessel BROWN BEAR at Ketchikan, Alaska. Gary Banta, local agent, on the dock. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Herb Webb (left), NRCS Resource Conservationist, Flathead Indian Reservation Tribal Complex, Pablo, MT, and Joel Clairmont, tribal member, local extension agent, grain, hay, and cattle producer, discuss the quality of alfalfa he is about to bale. Clairmon. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | Herd bull with mixed herd on the farm of Perry County Agent Roger Jones. Credit: USDA. |
 | African American farmer, discusses watermellon yield with County Agent Allen McReynolds. Wayne County, MS. Credit: USDA. |  | TRIM and fit: Extension agent Wayne Cooley, ARS agronomist Randy Anderson, and farmer Gilbert Lindstrom work together as a team to figure the best methods for growing wheat in a dryland cropping system relying on a wheat/corn/fallow rotation. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | The leaf beetle Diorhabda elongata is the first approved biological control agent for saltcedar in the United States. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Bob Richard, APHIS.. |  | Agent Childers and Seized Mink Skins. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Cuban Kids near Cienfuegos" by Gabino Travassos Commentary: "I spent an afternoon chasing these kids around their farmyard. The only Spanish I knew was "Yo El Hombre Secreto!" or "I am a secret agent man." I think they thought that was pretty funny." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Every kind and good deed is a press agent for God. |
Henry Ward Beecher | The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world. |
John Adams | Liberty, according to my metaphysics . . . is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | To change thy mind and to follow him that sets thee right is to be none the less the free agent that thou wast before. |
William Shakespeare | Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But his offspring having another way of entrance into the world, different from him, by a natural birth, that produced them ignorant and without the use of reason, they were not presently under that law; for no body can be under a law, which is not promulgated to him; and this law being promulgated or made known by reason only, he that is not come to the use of his reason, cannot be said to be under this law; and Adam's children, being not presently as soon as born under this law of reason, were not presently free: for law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under that law: could they be happier without it, the law, as an useless thing, would of itself vanish; and that ill deserves the name of confinement which hedges us in only from bogs and precipices. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | This agent will exercise a general control over the representatives or counsel employed by its nationals. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | In Islington you can hardly hurl a brick without hitting three antique shops, an estate agent and a bookshop |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I have committed an offence against authority in your person, I, who am the agent of authority |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Symptoms vary widely depending on etiologic agent. (references) | |
An agent called heparin that keeps blood from clotting. (references) | ||
It is a promotility agent like cisapride and metoclopramide. (references) | ||
Business | By law, all foreign firms must have a local agent. (references) | |
A local agent can be assigned for one emirate or more. (references) | ||
However, participating without a local agent is not recommended. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Tunisia | Maaoui did not specify what punishment the agent would receive. (references) |
Tunisia | Minister of Human Rights, Communications, and Relations with the Chamber of Deputies Slaheddine Maaoui announced publicly in April that the police agent who was responsible for Cherif's assault had been suspended and punished. (references) | |
Economic History | Mexico | Usually, a sales agent is a freelancer. (references) |
Human Rights | Philippines | The bodies of the agent and driver were found in March. (references) |
Philippines | In November 2000, a public relations agent and his driver disappeared. (references) | |
Honduras | He last was seen leaving his house in Tegucigalpa to meet a police investigative agent regarding a stolen car. (references) | |
Political Economy | OMAN | Application for trademark protection also requires a local agent. (references) |
SAUDI ARABIA | Foreign companies are no longer required to operate through a Saudi Arabian agent. (references) | |
HONDURAS | To participate in public tenders, foreign firms are required to act through a local agent. (references) | |
Political Rights | Kuwait | In the most serious case, the Minister of Oil was accused of being an agent for a foreign petroleum company because his wife was allegedly on the company's payroll. (references) |
Trade | Argentina | We recommend that an agent or distributor handle this process. (references) |
Spain | All shipments must be cleared through Customs by a registered customs agent. (references) | |
Travel | Peru | There is a consular agent, Dra. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | The fee is payable to the travel agent through which the ticket is booked. (references) | |
Egypt | A good Egyptian agent will help you a great deal in directing you to success. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Peru | A union must represent at least 20 workers in order to become an official collective bargaining agent. (references) |
United Arab Emirates | The boy's father claimed that an agent who promised them an attractive salary had brought the family to the country. (references) | |
United Arab Emirates | A 17-year old Bangladeshi girl sought refuge at the Bangladeshi Embassy after being forced into prostitution by the agent who brought her to the country. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion. Cold pie was highly esteemed by the remains. Rev. Dr. Mucker (in a funeral sermon over a British nobleman) Cold pie is a detestable American comestible. That's why I'm done -- or undone -- So far from that dear London. (from the headstone of a British nobleman in Kalamazoo) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
John Hartmann | Very close. I talked to him once or twice or three times a week. I'm a professional agent and personal manager and throughout my career and I helped him make his choices on who was going to be his helpers in his career and what to do and what not to do. |
Robert Novak | Mr. Chairman, Director Mueller was first rather dismissive of the charges of incompetency by Coleen Rowley, the FBI agent that sent the letter to him, but he came back this week and commended Ms. Rowley for her whistle-blowing. |
Victoria Principal | I was an actress first, and I lost my way. I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. And I don't know of anyone else who can say this. I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | From a desire also to remove the discontents of the Six nations, a settlement mediated at Presque Isle, on Lake Erie, has been suspended, and an agent is now endeavoring to rectify any misconception into which they may have fallen. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | A final report has not been received from the agent who was appointed to superintend it. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Measures have been taken to ascertain the state of the facts more correctly by the employment of a special agent to visit the spot where the alleged outrages have occurred, the result of those inquiries, when received, will be transmitted to Congress. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | In the area of toxic agent control, legislation which I submitted to the Congress recently passed. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Agent" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.95% of the time. "Agent" is used about 4,343 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.95% | 4,341 | 2,265 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.05% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,343 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "agent" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Agent | Last name | 200 | 32,500 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "agent": abrading agent ♦ accredited agent ♦ activating agent ♦ active agent ♦ actor's agent ♦ addition agent ♦ adhering agent ♦ adhesion agent ♦ adhesion promoting agent ♦ advertising agent ♦ agent économique ♦ agent bank ♦ agent banks ♦ agent orange ♦ agent provocateur ♦ agricultural agent ♦ aircraft handling agent ♦ alkalating agent ♦ alkilating agent ♦ alkylating agent ♦ alloying agent ♦ anaesthetic agent ♦ anesthetic agent ♦ anti stalling agent ♦ antianxiety agent ♦ anticrop agent ♦ Antidiabetic Agent ♦ antiemetic agent ♦ antifoam agent ♦ antifoaming agent ♦ antifreeze agent ♦ antifrothing agent ♦ antifungal agent ♦ antimateriel agent ♦ antimycotic agent ♦ antipsychotic agent ♦ antiscumming agent ♦ antiseptic agent ♦ antispasmodic agent ♦ antistalling agent ♦ antistatic agent ♦ antistripping agent ♦ antiviral agent ♦ anxiolytic agent ♦ ataractic agent ♦ atmospheric agent ♦ authorized agent ♦ average agent ♦ be an agent for ♦ be the agent for ♦ Believable Agent Project ♦ binding agent ♦ biological agent ♦ biological control agent ♦ blanching agent ♦ blast agent ♦ blasting agent ♦ bleaching agent ♦ blister agent ♦ blocking agent ♦ blood agent ♦ bonding agent ♦ book agent ♦ booking agent ♦ business agent ♦ carcinogenic agent ♦ carrying agent ♦ catalytic agent ♦ causal agent ♦ causative agent ♦ causative agent of disease ♦ cbr agent ♦ chelating agent ♦ chemical agent ♦ chemotherapeutic agent ♦ claim agent ♦ cleansing agent ♦ coalescent agent ♦ collecting agent ♦ coloring agent ♦ colouring agent ♦ commercial agent ♦ commission agent ♦ conference agent ♦ confidential agent ♦ consular agent ♦ cooling agent ♦ Cooperating User Agent ♦ coordinating agent ♦ county agent ♦ coupling agent ♦ cryoprotective agent ♦ customer agent ♦ customs agent ♦ decontaminating agent ♦ defoaming agent ♦ defoliating agent ♦ delivery agent ♦ denaturating agent ♦ desensitizing agent ♦ detonating agent. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "agent": agent-in-place, agent-less, agent-object, agent-provocateur. | |
Ending with "agent": arch-agent, change-agent, co-agent, counter-agent, double-agent, estate-agent, ex-agent, house-agent, land-agent, law-agent, leisure-agent, money-agent, multi-agent, principal-agent, secret-agent, single-agent, station-agent, sub-agent, subject-agent, v-agent. | |
Containing "agent": multi-agent munition. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
travel agent | 4,536 | agent under fire | 278 |
real estate agent | 3,202 | become a travel agent | 260 |
insurance agent | 2,270 | 007 agent under fire | 238 |
agent | 2,196 | agent aika | 234 |
estate agent | 1,359 | copernic agent | 231 |
agent orange | 1,145 | la jolla real estate agent | 230 |
literary agent | 1,089 | become a real estate agent | 227 |
estate agent in the uk | 1,074 | 2003 agent free nhl | 226 |
agent free nba | 837 | 007 agent cheat fire under | 221 |
free agent | 764 | agent free nhl | 210 |
sports agent | 523 | acting agent | 202 |
chicago real estate agent | 509 | online travel agent | 191 |
2003 agent free nba | 503 | enrolled agent | 189 |
forte agent | 477 | agent provocateur | 189 |
estate agent uk | 393 | uk travel agent | 177 |
talent agent | 392 | cruise travel agent | 173 |
agent cody bank | 371 | booking agent | 173 |
buyer agent | 324 | insurance agent lead | 169 |
registered agent | 318 | travel agent school | 162 |
agent smith | 285 | agent cheat fire under | 162 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "agent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | agent (policeman), verteenwoordiger (representative), bemiddelaar. (various references) | |
Albanian | agjent (factor, informant, operator). (various references) | |
Arabic | ممثل (actor, delegate, deputy, performer, player, rep, representative, stager, star, vicar), موظف خاصة في الشرطة وقوة الأمن, نائب (acting, delegate, junior, procurator, representative, surrogate, vicar), وكيل (dealer, deputy, junior, mandatary, procurator, representative, vicar), عميل سري (cooperative, operative, secret agent), عامل (active, cooperative, employee, engine, fillip, hand, industrious, ingredient, laborer, labourer, process, use, working, workman), أداة (appliance, device, gadget, implement, particle, tool, utensil). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | служител (functionary, minister, servant), чиновник (clerk, office bearer, officer, official, white collar worker), фактор (factor, medium), комисионер (factor, jobber), вещество (material, matter, stuff, substance), агент (broker, factor, feeler, implement, investigator, minister, nark, plant, procurator), пълномощник (assignee, attorney, commissary, deputy, employer, factor, mandatary, mandatory, procurator, proxy, vicegerent), представител (deputy, distributor, factor, mouth, prophet, rep, representation, representative, secondary, spokesman, vakeel), посредник (ambassador, banian, banyan, broker, factor, go between, intercessor, intermediary, mediator, middleman, moderator, negotiant, negotiator, umpire), деятел (doer, functionary), действуваща сила. (various references) | |
Catalan | representant. (various references) | |
Chinese | 代理人 , 代理 (Deputies, deputise, Deputize, Deputy), 中介 . (various references) | |
Czech | zprostředkovatel (broker, intermediary, middleman, moderator), zmocnìnec, zástupce (alternate, deputy, lawyer, procurator, proxy, representative, substitute), obchodní jednatel, konfident, èinitel (agency, factor), èinidlo (reagent). (various references) | |
Danish | agent (agency), agens (substance). (various references) | |
Dutch | agent (officer, policeman), vertegenwoordiger (representative), dealer (bagman, broker, candyman, dealer, trader), agens. (various references) | |
Esperanto | agento, peranto. (various references) | |
Estonian | piletimüüja (ticket agent). (various references) | |
Faeroese | amboð (means, remedy, resources, tool), umboðsmaður (commissar), umboð (representative), fyristøðumaður (boss, chief, leader, steward, superintendant). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیشکار (Chamberlain, Steward), مامور (Envoy, Officer), نماینده (Delegate, Deputation, Deputy, Doer, Envoy, Exponent, Indicator, Proxy, Representation, Representative, Symptomatic), گماشته , وکیل (Attorney, Deputy, Lieutenant, Proxy), عامل (Doer, Element, Operative, Potential). (various references) | |
Finnish | agentti. (various references) | |
Flemish | kaartjesverkoper (ticket agent, ticket seller). (various references) | |
French | agent, représentant. (various references) | |
French Canadian | agent. (various references) | |
Frisian | agint, fertsjinwurdiger (representative). (various references) | |
Galician | axente. (various references) | |
German | Agent (operative, solicitor), Vertreter (advocate, deputy, distributor, exponent, holder, locum, proxy, rep, replacement, representative, sales representative, salesman, supporter), Agens, Mittel (aid, application, average, device, funds, mean, means, medicament, medium, method, mezzo, middle, remedy, resource, resources, tool, vehicle, way). (various references) | |
Greek | πράκτορας, παράγων (agency, paragon, procreator). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | agjent. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתוך (arbitrator, broker, from, go between, intermediary, mediator, medium, middleman, of, out of), מפעיל (actuator, effector, operator, reagent), שליח (courier, delegate, deputy, emissary, legate, messenger, missionary), עמיל (broker, commissioner), גורם (cause, factor, ground), בא כח (attorney, delegate, proxy, representative, spokesman), סוכן (dealer, steward), נציג (delegate, deputy, representative). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ügynök (bagman, broker, business agent, drummer, factor, goer between, mole, scrivener, solicitor, spy), természeti erő, tényező (coefficient, consideration, factor), közvetítő (go-between, interferer, intermediary, mediator, middle, transmitter), közeg (medium), hatóanyag. (various references) | |
Indonesian | agen (agency, branch), wakil (alternate, deputy, representative, vice), perantara (go between, intermediary, mediator, medium), penyebab, pelaku (actor, doer, performer, subject). (various references) | |
Irish | gníomhaire. (various references) | |
Italian | agente (factor, officer), strumento (appliance, implement, instrument, mean, means, medium, tool, utensil), rappresentante (deputy, exponent, rep, representative, salesman), mandatario (assignee, mandatory, proxy, representative), arnese (contraption, gadget, gear, implement, means, thing, tool, utensil). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 取扱人 (person in charge), 出張員 (dispatched official, representative), 仲立ち (agency, go-between, mediation, mediator, middleman), 代行者 (proxy), 代理者 (alternate, attorney, deputy, proxy, representative, substitute), 代理人 (alternate, attorney, deputy, proxy, representative, substitute), 代理店 (agency), 代理業者 , 代理 (acting, agency, alternate, attorney, deputy, proxy, representation, substitute), 代人 (deputy, proxy, representative, substitute), 動因 , ウロン酸 (ace, acre, age, age shooter, age-group, ageing, ageism, agency, aging, agism, ether, someone who is overly concerned with status. Can be used enviously with reference to someone of real accomplishment., undine, uronic acid), 周旋人 (middleman), 世話人 (go-between, manager, mediator, sponsor). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なかだち (agency, go-between, mediation, mediator, middleman), しゅうせんにん (middleman), しゅっちょういん (dispatched official, representative), どういん (incentive, inducement, mobilization), せわびと (go-between, manager, mediator, sponsor), せわにん (go-between, manager, mediator, sponsor), エージェント , とりあつかいにん (person in charge), だいにん (acting official, adult, agency, deputy, proxy, representative, substitute), だいこうしゃ (proxy), だいりぎょうしゃ, だいりしゃ (alternate, attorney, deputy, proxy, representative, substitute), だいりにん (alternate, attorney, deputy, proxy, representative, substitute), だいりてん (agency), だいり (acting, agency, alternate, attorney, deputy, imperial palace, proxy, representation, substitute). ( |
