Business name word

Agent

One who exerts power, or has the power to act.

Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ̯d͡ʒənt/, [ˈeɪ̯d͡ʒənt] ~ [ˈeɪ̯d͡ʒn̩t]

What “Agent” means

Noun

  1. One who exerts power, or has the power to act.
  2. One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to act on behalf of or in behalf of another, such as to transact business for them.
  3. A person who looks for work for another person and brokers a deal between the hiree and hirer.
  4. Someone who works for an intelligence agency: whether an officer or employee thereof or anyone else who agrees to help their efforts (for ideology, for money, as blackmailee, or otherwise).
  5. An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect.

Where the word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin agēnsder. English agent From Latin agēns, present active participle of agere (“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”).

Meanings and etymology from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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