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A software routine that waits in the background and performs an action when a specified event occurs. For example, agents could transmit a summary file on the first day of the month or monitor incoming data and alert the user when a certain transaction has arrived. Agents are also called "intelligent agents," "personal agents" and "bots." See mobile agent, bot and workflow.

(networking)agent - In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase "intelligent agent" it implies some kind of automatic process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.


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That evening the three made their report to the men--the thing was altogether as represented in the circular, or at any rate so the agent had said.
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AN Insurance Agent was trying to induce a Hard Man to Deal With to take out a policy on his house.
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