agentnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈeɪ.dʒənt/us/ˈeɪ.dʒənt/agent noun [ C ] (REPRESENTATIVE)
B2 a person who acts for or represents another:
Please contact our agent in Spain for further information.
a person who represents an actor, artist, or writer
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- Los Angeles is full of beautiful girls working as waitresses, hoping to be discovered by a movie agent.
- She has worked as an estate agent among other things.
- The agent has put a price of £120,000 on our house.
- The undercover agents went to the rendezvous knowing that it might be a trap.
- Unhappy tourists have pointed the finger at unhelpful travel agents.
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People who sell things
- assistant
- auctioneer
- barker
- barrow boy
- black market
- cashier
- franchisee
- hawker
- ironmonger
- label
- marketeer
- sales force
- sales rep
- salesclerk
- salesman
- salesperson
- tradesman
- tradespeople
- vendor
- wholesaler
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Artists
People who work in publishing
agent noun [ C ] (SPY)
B2 someone who works secretly for the government or other organization:
a secret/foreign agent
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International relations: spying and espionage
- agent provocateur
- counter-espionage
- counterintelligence
- deep state
- double agent
- MI5
- MI6
- on the inside idiom
- operative
- phone tapping
- quisling
- scout
- spook
- spy
- spy on sb/sth
- tail
- tap
- the CIA
- wired up
- wiretap
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agent noun [ C ] (CAUSE)
a person or thing that produces a particular effect or change:
a powerful cleaning agent
a raising agent for cakes
a clotting agent
literary He was the agent of their destruction.
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Causing things to happen
- -ization
- -ize
- actuate
- actuation
- awaken (sth) in sb
- be associated with sth
- beget
- blaze a trail idiom
- draw
- fuel
- instigator
- introduce
- jumping-off point
- lie
- plant
- produce
- rise
- usher sth in
- wreak
- wrought
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