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subagents

subagents is the plural of subagent.

Meaning of subagent

Noun

subagent (plural subagents)

  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 .1915, Harry Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney, David Shephard Garland, American and English Annotated Cases, page 22
  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.2003, Dwaine Snow, Thomas X. Phan, Advanced DBA Certification Guide and Reference for DB2 Universal Database v8

Questions about subagents

What is subagents the plural of?
Subagents is the plural of subagent.

Words near subagents in the dictionary

  1. subaffluent
  2. subage
  3. subagencies
  4. subagency
  5. subagent
  6. subagents
  7. subages
  8. subagglutinating
  9. subaggregate
  10. subaggregates
  11. subah

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