[ UK /ˈe‍ɪd‍ʒənt/ ]
[ US /ˈeɪdʒənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations
  2. the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
  3. a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
  4. any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau
  5. a substance that exerts some force or effect
  6. an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect
    their research uncovered new disease agents
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How To Use agent In A Sentence

  • I can find no legitimate references to the use of metallic, inorganic, or organic silver compounds as a sanitizer, disinfectant, or sterilizing agent. quaternary ammonium chloride compounds - Mixtures of compounds such as alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride, didecyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, dioctyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, and octyl decyl dimethyl ammonium chloride are very commonly used as surface sanitizer; if you look at your household cleaners that claim disinfecting properties, there's a high percentage chance that you'll find a "quat". Question ;Microdyne
  • Still, it's nowhere near what he would command on the free-agent market.
  • You might well feel a tad suspicious of this literary agent's good fortune. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thirty unarmed INS agents accompanied the flight, guarding the handcuffed deportees in shifts, standing in aircraft's aisles at every fifth row.
  • It also discusses the harm in detail according to the comparison of acid gases between different. the research provides selection of fire-extinguishing agents in terms of harms.
  • To explicate this relation, Searle and Vanderveken define weak illocutionary commitment: S1 weakly illocutionarily implies S2 iff every performance of S1 commits an agent to meeting the conditions laid down in the septuple identical to S2 (1985, p. 24). Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla
  • In his relations with his commercial agent a principal must act dutifully and in good faith.
  • The researchers attached this 'contrast agent' to a molecule that binds to the protein elastin, which is found in artery walls. Dailyindia.com News Feed
  • We are now told, with equal wonder and admiration, that natural selection is the agent of exquisite design.
  • Such a seemingly innocuous observation, yet as Logan evolves from student, to writer, to secret agent, to art gallery dealer, we see how it informs a kind of amorality in his character that propels him to sleep with his college mate's girlfriend and, later, the same man's wife, marry a woman he doesn't love and then push her aside when he meets the real love of his life. SFGate: Top News Stories
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