agent

agente, representante

Persona que actúa en nombre de otra persona u organización, a menudo gestionando negocios o tomando decisiones.

En inglés sencillo: Someone who acts for another person or organization, often arranging business or making decisions.

• Call your travel agent.
• His agent arranged the film contract.
• The insurance agents answered our questions.

Cómo se usa: agent for someone/something (She works as an agent for several musicians.)

Sinónimos: representative

Expresiones frecuentes: estate agent, travel agent, agent for someone

agente

Sustancia o fuerza que provoca un cambio o produce un efecto.

En inglés sencillo: A substance or force that causes a change or produces an effect.

• Soap is a cleaning agent.
• The laboratory identified the infectious agent.
• Wind acts as an agent of erosion.

Sinónimos: cause

Expresiones frecuentes: cleaning agent, infectious agent, agent of change

agente

Persona o ser capaz de actuar y tomar decisiones que influyen en las cosas.

En inglés sencillo: A person or being able to act and make choices that affect things.

• A moral agent can make choices.
• The theory treats each person as an independent agent.
• Are animals responsible agents in the same way humans are?

Sinónimos: actor

Expresiones frecuentes: moral agent, rational agent, free agent