Subagent

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business entrusted to the latter.

    "Where a subagent is appointed pursuant to actual or implied authority from the principal the principal is liable directly to the subagent for his compensation ."

  2. 2
    An autonomous process that is launched by and communicates with another agent in order to handle part of the task that is the objective of that other agent.

    "On a UNIX system, the coordinating agent and subagent processes will have different names."

Example

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"Where a subagent is appointed pursuant to actual or implied authority from the principal the principal is liable directly to the subagent for his compensation ."

Etymology

From sub- + agent.

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