noun 1) деятель 2) агент, представитель, посредник, доверенное лицо forwarding agent - экспедитор station agent amer. - начальник станции ticket agent amer. - кассир билетной кассы 3) pl. агентура 4) действующая сила; фактор; вещество - chemical agent - physical agent road agent amer. - разбойник с большой дороги agent provocateur pl. agents provocateurs; fr. - провокатор Syn: see performer ...
агент, представитель, поверенный, посредник, доверенное лицо – agent as representative of applicant – agent for an inventor – advertising agent – chartered patent agent – commercial agent – commission agent – common agent of several applicants – foreign agent – general agent – official agent – professional patent agent – registered patent agent – sales agent – statutory agent – trademark agent AGENT сущ. 1) эк., юр. агент, представитель, посредник; поверенный, доверенное лицо, уполномоченный (лицо, получившее право действовать от имени и по поручению принципала (доверителя) за определенное вознаграждение) to act as an agent - выступать в качестве агента, to be an agent of company - быть представителем (агентом) компании, agent for the purchase of wheat - агент по покупке пшеницы Syn: assignee See: agent's operation 2) общ. действующая сила, фактор, средство agents of production - факторы производства 3) мн. общ., агентура, агентство 4) тех. вещество, агент; реактив, реагент bonding agent - связующий материал, связующее вещество, связующий агент; chemical agent - химическое вещество, реактив, реагент, химический агент; 5) комп. агент, агент-программа (программа накомпьютере-клиенте, предназначенная для автономного выполнения заранее запрограммированных функций; обычно речь идет о программах, предназначенных для сбора и индексирования...
n. 1 a a person who acts for another in business, politics, etc. (estate agent; insurance agent). b a spy. 2 a a person or thing that exerts power or produces an effect. b the cause of a natural force or effect on matter (oxidizing agent). c such a force or effect. Phrases and idioms agent-general a representative of an Australian State or Canadian province, usu. in London. Derivatives agential adj. Etymology: L agent- part. stem of agere do ...
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noun Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin ~-, agens, from Latin, present participle of agere to drive, lead, act, do; akin to Old Norse aka to travel in a vehicle, Greek agein to drive, lead Date: 15th century 1. one that acts or exerts power 2. a. something that produces or is capable of producing an effect ; an active or efficient cause b. a chemically, physically, or biologically active principle 3. a means or instrument by which a guiding intelligence achieves a result 4. one who is authorized to act for or in the place of another: as a. a representative, emissary, or official of a government crown ~ federal ~ b. one engaged in undercover activities (as espionage) ; spy secret ~ c. a business representative (as of an athlete or entertainer) a theatrical ~ 5. a computer application designed to automate certain tasks (as gathering information online) ...
(agents) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. An agent is a person who looks after someone else’s business affairs or does business on their behalf. (BUSINESS) You are buying direct, rather than through an agent. = representative, rep N-COUNT see also estate agent, press agent, travel agent 2. An agent in the arts world is a person who gets work for an actor or musician, or who sells the work of a writer to publishers. N-COUNT 3. An agent is a person who works for a country’s secret service. All these years he’s been an agent for the East. N-COUNT 4. A chemical that has a particular effect or is used for a particular purpose can be referred to as a particular kind of agent. ...the bleaching agent in white flour. N-COUNT: supp N ...
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~ S3 W2 n 1 »BUSINESS« a person or company that represents another person or company in business, in their legal problems etc (Our agent in Rio deals with all our Brazilian business.) + for (We're acting as agents for Mr Watson.) (- see also estate agent, real estate agent, land agent) 2 »ARTIST/ACTOR« someone who is paid by actors, musicians etc to find work for them (My agent has an exciting new script for me to look at.) 3 »GOVERNMENT AGENT« someone who works for a government or police department in order to get secret information about another country or organization; spy (a Soviet agent in Czechoslovakia) (- see also secret agent, double agent) 4 »CHEMICAL« technical a chemical or substance that makes other substances change (Soap is a cleansing agent.) 5 »FORCE« someone or something that affects or changes a situation ~ for/of change (Technological advances are the chief agents of change.) ...
- 1471, "one who acts," from L. agentem (nom. agens), prp. of agere (see act). Meaning "any natural force or substance which produces a phenomenon" is first recorded 1756. Agent Orange (c.1970) so called from the color strip on the side of the container, which distinguished it from Agent Blue, Agent Purple, Agent White, etc., other herbicides used by U.S. military. ...