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Definition of Agents
1. agent [v] - See also: agent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agents
Literary usage of Agents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1902)
"That would indicate that Indian agents were a pretty bad set of men to require
... Mr. Garrett spoke of the desirability of doing away with Indian agents, ..."
2. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1899)
"EFFECT OF CHEMICAL agents UPON THE RATE OF GROWTH Organic growth, occurring in a
... These agents — foods, in the widest sense of the word — must supply the ..."
3. Introduction to Infectious and Parasitic Diseases: Including Their Cause and by Millard Langfeld (1907)
"Before the dawn of bacteriology, phys- INFECTIOUS icians had already applied the
term, infec- agents. tious, to diseases that, symptomatically, conformed to ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"A part of the defendants' consignment remained in the ship to the last, and was
received by them from the ship's agents, at the city of New York, ..."
5. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"Since, then, each of these agents is indispensable to production, ... When natural
agents are not appropriated, they have no claim on the result of ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1874)
"The researches detailed in this memoir are in continuation of those described in
the Memoir on Explosive agents, published in 1869*, and relate chiefly to ..."
7. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1914)
"In Table III all the substances are oxidizing agents and we find that the EMF
... With the reducing agents the contrary is the case—the EMF diminishing ..."
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