Agent Orange |
an extremely toxic defoliant widely used by U.S. armed forces during the Vietnam War and now believed to cause cancer and birth defects. |
agent provocateur |
(French) a secret agent who incites other people to commit acts that will subject them to punishment or prosecution, or who incites others to acts of rebellion or subversion; troublemaker. |
county agent |
a person employed by the government in rural areas to advise and educate in farming, managing natural resources, home economics, and the like; agricultural agent. |
double agent |
a spy employed by both of two opposed or competitive countries, companies, or the like. |
estate agent |
(chiefly British) one whose job is to help clients buy, sell, lease, or manage real estate; real estate agent. |
free agent |
a professional athlete, such as a baseball player, who is free to contract to play for any team. |
Indian agent |
a U.S. government official responsible for dealing with American Indian tribes, esp. on reservations. |
press agent |
one whose business is to promote a person or organization by arranging advertising and publicity in the news media. |
real estate agent |
one whose job is to help clients buy, sell, lease or manage real estate. |
reducing agent |
a substance that chemically reduces or causes reduction in another substance, and that is itself oxidized in the process. |
road agent |
a highway robber of stagecoaches, as in the nineteenth-century western United States. |
secret agent |
a person who performs acts of espionage and other undercover operations, esp. for a government. |
station agent |
a person who manages a small railroad or bus station. |
transfer agent |
an individual, bank, or trust company that is legally designated to supervise the buying and selling of certificates on behalf of a corporation. |