Agent vs Practitioner - What's the difference?
agent | practitioner | Synonyms |
One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent ; as, heat is a powerful agent.
(computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
(grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".
A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
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, title= One who does anything customarily or habitually.
(label) A sly or artful person.
* John Whitgift
Agent is a synonym of practitioner.
As nouns the difference between agent and practitioner
is that agent is agent (intermediary for certain services, such as for artistic performances or public relations) while practitioner is a person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.agent
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(wikipedia agent)Noun
(en noun)- Heaven made us agents , free to good or ill. --Dryden.
- I see in him [Moby Dick] outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent , or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. --Herman Melville, , ch. 36
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(wikipedia practitioner)Noun
(en noun)Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
- the men of St. John's were cunning practitioners , in shaking off their Masters and Heads.