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agents

An agent is either an entity who is capable of action or an agent is something or someone which acts on behalf of another person.

Agent can mean:

Agent (law): a person authorised to act on behalf of another person
- Patent agent, or patent attorney, a professional who represents and advises another in the assessment, securing and maintaining of intellectual property rights, with particular reference to patent rights.
- 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

Secret agent, a spy
Double agent, in spying
Special agent, generally, a federal criminal or non-criminal investigator or detective.

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)

Software agent, software that acts on behalf of a user
- Forté Agent, a newsreader and email client
- User agent, a client application used with a particular network protocol
Intelligent agent
- In artificial intelligence an intelligent agent is any entity that is capable of perceiving its environment and carrying out goal-directed action.
- In computer science, an intelligent agent is a software agent that displays some intelligence.

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".