Agent can mean:

• 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 (law), a person authorised to act on behalf of another person
  • literary agent, a person who represents a writer
  • sports agent, a professional who represents an athlete
  • Casting 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
• Agent (economics)
• Espionage, secret agent, a spy
• Double agent, in spying
• Election agent, a person responsible for a candidate's campaign
• Free agent, a sports player who is out of contract
• Real estate broker, or real estate agent
• Yacht broker, or yacht agent
• Yacht charter broker, or yacht charter agent
• 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
• Agent noun (or nomen agentis), one of the derivatemes (a topic from linguistic morphology)

In science:

• Agent Orange, a herbicide
• biological agent, an infectious disease that can be used in biological warfare

In computing:

• Forté Agent, a newsreader and email client
• software agent, software that acts on behalf of a user
  • intelligent agent, an intelligent software agent
  • user agent, a client application used with a particular network protocol

In fiction:

• Agent 212, a Belgian comic
• Agents, characters in The Matrix
• Secret Agent, a 1936 film
• The Agents, super-human characters in Seven Samurai 20XX

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".

See also

• Special agent

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