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Agent can mean:
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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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In linguistics, a grammatical agent is the participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation. Also, agent is the name of the thematic role (also known as the thematic relation) with the above definition.
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Introductory Agencies
Clients (parents for the most part) are sent a list of names of tutors who have pre-registered with the tuition agency and are then left to contact the names on the list to ascertain which tutors are available and then make their own contractual
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tutor is often but not always a postgraduate student or a lecturer assigned to conduct a seminar for undergraduate students, often known as a tutorial. The equivalent of a tutor in the United States and the rest of Canada is known as a teaching assistant.

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Agent in Commercial Law is a person who is authorised to act on behalf of another (called the Principal) to create a legal relationship with a Third Party. Section 182 of the [Indian] Contract Act, 1882 defines Agent as “a person employed to do any act for another or to
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A literary agent represents writers and their written works to publishers and film producers and assists in the sale and deal negotiation of the same. Literary agents most often represent novelists, screenwriters and major non-fiction writers.
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Agent can mean:
  • Agent (grammar), one of the thematic roles: the participant of a situation that carries out an action. Replaces "subject" in placement typology.
  • Tuition agent, a person who represents a tuition agency in searching for suitable tutors for students.

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A talent agent is a person who finds jobs for actors, musicians, models, and other people in various entertainment businesses. Agents make their money by making a percentage of the money that their client is paid.
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A "sports agent" is a person who procures and negotiates employment and endorsement deals for an athlete. In return, the agent receives a commission that is usually between four and ten percent of the contract, although this figure varies.
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A talent agent is a person who finds jobs for actors, musicians, models, and other people in various entertainment businesses. Agents make their money by making a percentage of the money that their client is paid.
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A press agent is a professional publicist who acts on behalf of his or her client on all matters involving public relations. Press agents are typically employed by public personalities and organizations such as performers and businesses.
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A foreign agent is, in United States law, an entity registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

A foreign agent in Mobile IP is a router which stores information about mobile nodes visiting its network.
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The Foreign Agents Registration Act is a United States law passed in 1938 requiring information from foreign sources to be properly identified to the American public. The act was passed in response to German propaganda in the lead-up to World War II.
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In economics, an agent is an actor in a model that (generally) solves an optimization problem. In this sense, it is equivalent to the term player, which is also used in economics, but is more common in game theory.
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A travel agency is a business that sells travel related products and services, particularly package tours, to end-user customers on behalf of third party travel suppliers, such as airlines, hotels, tour companies, and cruise lines.
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  • United States Forest Service
  • Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
  • Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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    • Espionage (a word from Latin espionnage) or spying is a practice of obtaining information about an organization or a society that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information.
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    double agent is someone who pretends to spy on a target organization on behalf of a controlling organization, but in fact is loyal to the target organization. Double agents may be agents of the target organization who infiltrate the controlling organization, or may be previously
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    election agent is the person legally responsible for the conduct of a candidate's political campaign and to whom election material is sent to by those running the election. In elections in the United Kingdom a candidate may be his or her own election agent.
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    NFL free agent redirects here.
    In professional sports, a free agent is a team player whose contract with a team has expired, and the player is able to sign a contract with another team.
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    A real estate broker is a party who acts as an intermediary between sellers and buyers of real estate and attempts to find sellers who wish to sell and buyers who wish to buy.
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    A yacht broker is a specialist agent who acts as a representative for the sale of a yacht or boat. The yacht broker is paid an agreed commission the sale price of a yacht and to this end markets the yacht for sale, fields buyer interest and act as a ‘middle man’ in the
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    Yacht chartering is the practice of renting, or chartering, a sailboat or motor yacht and travelling to various coastal or island destinations. This is usually a vacation activity, but it also can be a corporate event.

    There are two main kinds of charter: bareboat and crewed.
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    Agent Provocateur
    (1984) Inside Information
    (1987)

    Agent Provocateur is the fifth album by American/British rock band Foreigner, released in 1984.
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    In linguistics, agent noun (or nomen agentis) is a word that is derived from another word denoting an action (A) and that has the meaning entity that does A.
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    A rational agent takes actions which, given his or her knowledge of its environment, maximizes its chances of success.

    The action a rational agent takes depends on:
    • the agent's past experiences
    • the agent's information of its environment

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    Agent Orange and "Super Orange" were the nicknames given to a herbicide and defoliant used by the United States Armed Forces in its Herbicidal Warfare program during the Vietnam War.
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    A biological agent is an infectious disease or toxin that can be used in bioterrorism or biological warfare. There are more than 1200 different kinds of biological agents.
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    robot is a mechanical or virtual, artificial agent . It is usually an electromechanical system, which, by its appearance or movements, conveys a sense that it has intent or agency of its own.
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    Forté Agent is an email and Usenet news client used on the Windows operating system. Agent was conceived, designed and developed by Mark Sidell and the team at Forté Internet Software in 1994 to address the need for an online/offline newsreader which capitalized on the emerging
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    In computer science, a software agent is a piece of software that acts for a user or other program in a relationship of agency[1]. Such "action on behalf of" implies the authority to decide when (and if) action is appropriate.
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