agent
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- n an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect
their research uncovered new disease agents - n a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations
- n a substance that exerts some force or effect
- n a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
- n any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau
- n the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
- ETROIT COMPUTER BULLETIN board lists the names of local agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and offers helpful advice on how to harass them.
- Fraud soars, enforcement lags After Drug Enforcement Administration agents nabbed a Chilean cocaine smuggler in Beverly Hills, Calif.
- A PTI cover story on an explosive letter to the head of the FBI, Minneapolis agent Coleen Rowley acuses the agency of obstructing information that may have prevented Sept.