agents

/หˆeษช.dส’ษ™nts/

IPA: /EY1 JH AH0 N T S/

noun
  1. 1

    One who exerts power, or has the power to act

  2. 2

    One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him/her; someone entrusted to do the business of another

  3. 3

    A person who looks for work for another person

  4. 4

    Someone who works for an intelligence agency

  5. 5

    An active power or cause or substance; something which has the power to produce an effect

  6. 6

    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 โ€œintelligent agentโ€ 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.

  7. 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".

  8. 8

    A cheat who is assisted by dishonest casino staff.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/agent, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/agents