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agentnoun something used to achieve an endthe whitening agent in the detergent is chlorine bleach the Church has been the traditional agent for social justice in impoverished countries agency, instrument, instrumentality, machinery, means, medium, ministry, organ, vehicle determinant, expedient, factor, influence, ingredient, mechanism, toolweaponactivator, animator, catalyst, driver, energizer, executor, generator, impetus, incentive, inspiration, instigation, instigator, launcher, mover, power, stimulus, triggerantecedent, cause, occasion, reasonsubagency, subagent a person who acts or does business for anotherthe sports agent negotiated a record-breaking contract for the baseball player assignee, attorney, commissary, delegate, deputy, envoy, factor, minister, procurator, proxy, rep, representative ambassador, diplomat, diplomatist, emissary, foreign minister, legate, plenipotentiaryalternate, backup, pinch hitter, relief, replacement, stand-in, sub, substitute, surrogate, understudyinformer, operative, spybroker, distributor, managerarbiter, arbitrator, comprador(or compradore), conciliator, go-between, intercessor, intermediary, interposer, liaison, mediator, middleman, peacemakermouthpiece, point man, point person, prophet, speaker, spokesman, spokesperson a person sent on a mission to represent anotheran undercover agent of the Crown ambassador, delegate, emissary, envoy, legate, minister, representative ambassadressattaché, chargé d'affaires, consul, deputy, diplomat, foreign minister, nuncio, procurator, proxyapostle, evangelist, missionarydeputation, detachment, legationcourier, messengermouthpiece, spokesperson a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly countryan agent feeding information about enemy troop movements asset, emissary, intelligencer, mole, operative, spook, spy, undercover couriercounterspy, double agent, sleeperinfiltrator, informer, stool pigeonspymaster, superspy secret agent, undercover agent in the 15th century |