Agent
Agent noun - A person sent on a mission to represent another.
Usage example: an undercover agent of the Crown
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Synonyms for Agent
Messenger is a synonym for agent in mediator topic. In some cases you can use "Messenger" instead a noun "Agent", when it comes to topics like emissary.
Messenger
Messenger noun - One that carries a message or does an errand.
Usage example: the messenger comes by twice a day to pick up packages
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Synonyms for Messenger
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- representative and agent
- representative and messenger
- minister and agent
- minister and messenger
- delegate and agent
- delegate and messenger
- factor and agent
- factor and messenger
- deputy and agent
- deputy and messenger
- intermediary and agent
- intermediary and messenger
- attorney and agent
- attorney and messenger
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Happens in the Lord Darcy case "The Ipswitch Phial", when the Polish agent tries to get the titular phial from the English messenger who's retrieved it.
Source: Accidental Murder -
The INS agent was really a messenger from her attorney's office; he was bringing a letter telling Inga that she received a six-month extension on her visa.
Source: Series / Amen - In Mystic Messenger Seven does this to the player in his route, fearing that his job as a secret agent hacker would only put her in danger, or he'd have to dissapear one day and hurt her.
Source: Break His Heart to Save Him
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