Agent
Agent noun - Something used to achieve an end.
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Synonyms for Agent
Lieutenant and agent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lieutenant" instead a noun "Agent".
Lieutenant
Lieutenant noun - A person who helps a more skilled person.
Agent and lieutenant are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Agent" instead a noun "Lieutenant".
Nearby Word: lieutenancy
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- substitute and agent
- substitute and lieutenant
- representative and agent
- representative and lieutenant
- minister and agent
- minister and lieutenant
- delegate and agent
- delegate and lieutenant
- factor and agent
- factor and lieutenant
- deputy and agent
- deputy and lieutenant
- assistant and agent
- assistant and lieutenant
How words are described
| good | good agent | good lieutenant |
| female | female agent | female lieutenant |
| best | best agent | best lieutenant |
| top | top agent | top lieutenant |
| Other adjectives: dead, single, corrupt, loyal, powerful, actual, real, male, evil, black, main, young, new, senior, former, ruthless, competent, greatest, said, captured, high-ranking, unnamed. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Lieutenant Jim Dangle, who is gay, finds himself having an inexplicable attraction to the female homeland Security agent Suzy Kim.
Source: Sweet on Polly Oliver -
For example, if at the end of a movie the bad guy's right-hand lieutenant shoots him and reveals that he was an "NSA double-agent" the entire time, that's an anachronism: its the CIA that sends in human information gathering agents.
Source: Useful Notes / NSA - Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Marshman Bailey while operating in Taskent in 1918 using the cover of an Austrian POW was hired by the Cheka to hunt down a British agent operating in the area
Source: Hired to Hunt Yourself
Cite this Source
Lieutenant and Agent. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/agent/lieutenant
Agent & Lieutenant. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/agent/lieutenant>.
Lieutenant or Agent. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/agent/lieutenant.
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