The term agent has different meanings according to the context in which it is used.
For the economy, an agent will be the individual or company that acts as an intermediary between a buyer and a seller, charging for this service a commission previously agreed by the parties.. To fulfill this type of function it will be necessary for the person to take a course, which once approved will grant the relevant license to practice. In addition, this same license will enable you to advise and advise on financial, customs and business matters. The function, in addition to being able to be deployed in a business or financial context, can be performed in others such as real estate, insurance and energy, among others.
Secondly, in the field of medicine, agents are that set of factors, more properly called as etiological or causal factors that are present in the environment and that on some occasions can cause the development of a disease in the host or host.
Another quite popular agent is the so-called smart agent, which, as its name already anticipates us, is an entity capable of perceiving an environment, processing the perceptions that come from it and acting accordingly. An intelligent agent can materialize in a physical or virtual entity, for example a robot, a software or a computer.
And in the context of grammar, an agent, also called agent complement is that Prepositional phrase that is responsible for proposing the action in the passive analytical constructions of the Spanish language. Generally, it is headed by the prepositions por or de. For example: Maria was Juan's lover.
