Agent Explained
Agent may refer to:
Espionage, investigation, and law
- , spies or intelligence officers
- Law of agency, laws involving a person authorized to act on behalf of another
- Agent of record, a person with a contractual agreement with an insurance policy owner
- Election agent, a person responsible for the conduct of a political campaign
- Free agent, a sports player who is eligible to sign with any club or franchise
- Literary agent, an agent who represents writers and their written works
- Modeling agency, a person or a corporation which represents fashion models
- Press agent, a professional publicist
- Foreign agent, a person who carries out the interests of a foreign country
- Real estate agent, an intermediary between sellers and buyers of real estate
- Registered agent, in the US, receives service of process for a party in a legal action
- Shipping agent, a person responsible for handling shipments and cargo
- Sports agent, a legal representative for professional sports figures such as athletes and coaches
- Talent agent or booking agent, a person who finds jobs for entertainment professionals
- Trade mark agent, a person who represents clients in trade mark matters
- Travel agent, a retailer that provides travel and tourism related services
- Special agent, an American criminal investigator or detective for example
Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters
Film and television
Music
Other uses in arts and entertainment
Science and technology
Biology and chemistry
Computing
- Agent architecture, a blueprint for software agents and control systems
- Agent-based model, a computational model for simulating the actions and interactions of individuals
- Intelligent agent, an autonomous, goal-directed entity which observes and acts upon an environment
- Software agent, a piece of software that acts for a user or other program
- User agent, software that is acting on behalf of a user
Other uses
- Agency (philosophy), the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment
- Agency (psychology), an attribute of humans and non-human animals
- Agent (economics), an actor and decision maker in a model
- Agent (grammar), in linguistics, the thematic relation of a cause or initiator to an event
- Agent noun, a word identifying an actor, derived from a word denoting an action
- Cleaning agent, a substance used to remove bad smells, clutter, dirt, dust, or stains on surfaces
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