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agent
noun /ˈeɪ.ʤɛnt/
a) One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.

Heaven made us agents, free to good or ill. Dryden.

b) One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.

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. Herman Melville, , ch. 36

Ant: patient
See Also: act, action, agency

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