agent

agent, représentant

Personne qui agit pour une autre personne ou une organisation, notamment en gérant des affaires ou en prenant des décisions.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : agent for someone/something (She works as an agent for several musicians.)

Synonymes : representative

Expressions courantes : estate agent, travel agent, agent for someone

agent

Substance ou force qui provoque un changement ou produit un effet.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : cause

Expressions courantes : cleaning agent, infectious agent, agent of change

agent

Personne ou être capable d’agir et de faire des choix qui ont des effets.

En anglais simple : 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?

Synonymes : actor

Expressions courantes : moral agent, rational agent, free agent