Agentless

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Without an agent. not-comparable

    "Maybe it’s not “American Idol,” but two agentless novelists have been plucked from obscurity and were anointed the winners yesterday of “First Chapters,” a writing contest sponsored by Simon & Schuster, the Borders Group and the social media site Gather.com ."

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"Maybe it’s not “American Idol,” but two agentless novelists have been plucked from obscurity and were anointed the winners yesterday of “First Chapters,” a writing contest sponsored by Simon & Schuster, the Borders Group and the social media site Gather.com ."

Etymology

From agent + -less.

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