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{
"term": "agent",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a person whose job is to act for, or manage the affairs of, other people in business, politics, etc.",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Our agent in New York deals with all US sales."
},
{
"text": "If you're going to rent out your house while you're abroad, you'll need someone **to act as your agent** here."
},
{
"text": "an insurance agent"
},
{
"text": "Typical agent's fees are around 6 per cent of the sale price."
},
{
"text": "I have an agent who deals with all my contracts."
},
{
"text": "The company has developed sales through local agents in key markets."
},
{
"text": "an agent for a shipping company"
}
],
"topics": ["Jobs", "Business"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["booking", "ticket", "travel"],
"verb + agent": ["employ", "have", "use"],
"preposition": ["through an agent", "agent for"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a person whose job is to arrange work for an actor, musician, sports player, etc. or to find somebody who will publish a writer’s work",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a theatrical/literary agent"
},
{
"text": "If you want to get published, get yourself an agent!"
},
{
"text": "She got the work through an agent."
}
],
"topics": ["Film and theatre"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["booking", "ticket", "travel"],
"verb + agent": ["employ", "have", "use"],
"preposition": ["through an agent", "agent for"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a person who works secretly to obtain information for a government or other organization",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "He was arrested by **federal agents**."
},
{
"text": "an enemy/undercover agent"
},
{
"text": "CIA/FBI agents"
},
{
"text": "She was operating as an undercover agent in London."
},
{
"text": "They were suspected of acting as enemy agents."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["intelligence", "enemy", "foreign"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a person or thing that has an important effect on a situation",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The charity has been an agent for social change."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["chief", "main", "primary"],
"preposition": ["agent for"],
"phrases": ["an agent for change", "an agent of change"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "a chemical or a substance that produces an effect or a change or is used for a particular purpose",
"labels": "(specialist)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "chemical/biological agents"
},
{
"text": "cleaning/oxidizing agents"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "the person or thing that does an action (expressed as the subject of an active verb, or in a ‘by’ phrase with a passive verb)",
"labels": "(grammar)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈeɪdʒənt/",
"audio": "ag/agent/agent__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈeɪdʒənt/",
"audio": "ag/agent/agent__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘someone or something that produces an effect’): from Latin agent- ‘doing’, from agere."
}