agent

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈeɪ.d͡ʒənt/

名詞

One who exerts power, or has the power to act / One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to do the business of another

日本語の意味

代理人 / 代表者・委任者（別の人物のために行動する人） / 仲介者（物事を仲介する人）

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The agent exercised his authority to implement the new policy.

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権限を有する者は新しい方針を実施するためにその権限を行使した。

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意味（1）

One who exerts power, or has the power to act

Seeing we are so wonderfully endowed with priceless gifts by our Heavenly Father, will he not require usury at our hands? He will. But he has made us agents to ourselves, which makes us responsible for the way in which we use the talents he has given us, for the manner we expend the gold and silver, the wheat and fine flour, the cattle upon a thousand hills, and the wine and oil, for they all belong to Him

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意味（2）

I see in him [Moby Dick] outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.

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意味（3）

A person who looks for work for another person

Ronald Koeman has agreed a deal with Everton to become their new manager, his agent has reportedly told Dutch media. The agent Rob Jansen said, according to the popular Voetbal International website, that it was now down to Southampton and Everton to agree a compensation package for the Dutchman, who has a year remaining on his contract at St Mary’s.

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意味（4）

Someone who works for an intelligence agency

意味（5）

So far seems to be the work of chemistry alone; at least we have no right to conclude that any other agent interferes; since hay, when it happens to imbibe moisture, exhibits nearly the same processes."

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意味（6）

(computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.

意味（7）

(grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".

A verb is typically described as active when its subject is the agent or actor. By contrast, a verb is said to be passive when the subject does not perform the action, but is the patient, target, or undergoer of the action.

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