Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, the agent of an agent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter.
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- noun law A person employed by an
agent totransact the whole, or a part, of the business entrusted to the latter.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He had made $120,000 dollars in total from acquiring the grimoire for Thule, once he had paid off the subagent in Brussels.
The Whisperers John Connolly 2010
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She told him that she wanted to continue to act as his agent for foreign translations and asked him politely to stay out of the discussion, arguing that the author should not be involved in these issues, and that the matter should be decided directly between herself and Pollinger, the UK subagent.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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You then paid a subagent in Brussels to act on your behalf, and the grimoire went to Thule.
The Whisperers John Connolly 2010
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You then paid a subagent in Brussels to act on your behalf, and the grimoire went to Thule.
The Whisperers John Connolly 2010
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It was probably a sign of his deteriorating relationship with Mike Watkins—no longer his main agent, but now a subagent to Murray Pollinger—that he had started turning to his publishers instead.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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He had made $120,000 dollars in total from acquiring the grimoire for Thule, once he had paid off the subagent in Brussels.
The Whisperers John Connolly 2010
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The two men were under contract with Marubeni, and appear to have used their positions at the company to help persuade Lehman to enter into a partnership with a tiny medical-services firm, Asclepius Ltd., which was a Marubeni subagent.
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The purported partnership was supposed to provide short-term financing -- at annualized rates as high as 25% -- to hospitals buying sophisticated medical equipment through a onetime Marubeni subagent.
Logjam Easing 2008
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The purported partnership was supposed to provide short-term financing -- at annualized rates as high as 25% -- to hospitals buying sophisticated medical equipment through a one-time Marubeni subagent.
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If the author says -- this is all about books, let's either write a contract that includes your Hollywood subagent as a signing party, if there ever is one, or just leave the film rights you don't handle out of it -- would the book agent call her a snooty diva and give her the boot?
Archive 2006-10-01 Miss Snark 2006
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