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Agent can mean:
- Agent (law): a person authorised to act on behalf of another person
- Tuition agent, a person who represents a tuition agency in searching for suitable tutors for students.
- Literary agent, a person who represents a writer
- Theatrical agent
- Booking agent
- Sports agent, a professional who represents an athlete
- Talent agent, a person who finds jobs for actors, models, and other people in various entertainment businesses.
- Press agent, publicist who acts on behalf of a client on all matters involving public relations
- Foreign agent, someone registered with the U.S. Justice Department as mandated by the Foreign Agents Registration Act
- Travel agent, makes vacation and travel arrangements
- Real estate broker, or real estate agent
- Yacht broker, or yacht agent
- Yacht charter broker, or yacht charter agent
- Election agent, a person responsible for a candidate's campaign
- Free agent, a sports player who is out of contract
- Agent provocateur, a person assigned to provoke unrest, violence, debate, or argument by or within a group while acting as a member of the group but covertly representing the interests of another
- Rational agent deliberate being
- In espionage and law enforcement
- Secret agent, a spy
- Double agent, in spying
- Special agent, generally, a federal criminal or non-criminal investigator or detective.
- In economics
- In chemistry and warfare
- Agent Orange, a herbicide
- Biological agent, an infectious disease that can be used in biological warfare
- Chemical weapon agent, classified by their effect and include; Nerve agent, Blister agent, Blood agent, Pulmonary agent, Incapacitating agent, and Riot control agent.
- In linguistics
- Agent (grammar), one of the thematic roles: the participant of a situation that carries out an action. Replaces "subject" in placement typology.
- Agent noun (or nomen agentis), one of the derivatemes (a topic from linguistic morphology)
- In computer science
- Software agent, software that acts on behalf of a user
- Forté Agent, a newsreader and email client
- Intelligent agent, an intelligent software agent
- User agent, a client application used with a particular network protocol
- Intelligent agent, an artificial intelligence system capable of perception, learning and goal directed behavior
- In fiction
- Agent 212, a Belgian comic
- Agents, characters in The Matrix
- The Agent (film), a 1922 film
- Secret Agent (1936 film), a 1936 film
- The Agents, superhuman characters in Seven Samurai 20XX
- Agent 47, a character from the computer game series Hitman
- In finance
- Agent, a financial institution acting as the operational intermediary in a syndicated loan between the syndicate banks and the borrower. The most common form is the "Administrative Agent".
- In popular culture
- Polish version of The Mole.
- Agents, a Finnish rock band.
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