Agent and Means

Agent

Agent noun - Something used to achieve an end.
Usage example: the Church has been the traditional agent for social justice in impoverished countries
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Synonyms for Agent

Means is a synonym for agent in power topic. In some cases you can use "Means" instead a noun "Agent", when it comes to topics like force, instrument, medium.

Nearby Words: agency, agential

Means

Means noun - How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.
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Synonyms for Means

Agent is a synonym for means in way topic. You can use "Agent" instead a noun "Means", if it concerns topics such as instrument.

Nearby Words: mean, meaning

How words are described

known known agent known means
human human agent human means
old old agent old means
good good agent good means
Other adjectives: special, best, perfect, certain, dead, effective, powerful, actual, real, evil, main, new, unknown.

Both words in one sentence

  • Both the TV incarnations of Mission: Impossible featured Fake Gunshots, as well as fake stabbings and any other means of getting an agent to "die" in front of the IM-Force's latest mark.
  • Series / Empire What Cookie means by "she knows her rights", Agent Harlow Carter or any other Fed can't force her into testifying against Lucious for his involvement in Bunkie's murder.
  • Country Matters He states that it means something completely different back from where he's from, to which another agent retorts that in the US, it means vagina.
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