{
    "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."
}