agentlike

English

Etymology

agent +‎ -like

Adjective

agentlike (comparative more agentlike, superlative most agentlike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of an agent.
   • 2000 July 16, Elaine S. Silver, “PERSONAL BUSINESS; Agents? Call Them Career Customizers”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Traditional-style talent agents are part of the trend, but so are Web sites, career counselors, and recruiters like Ms. MacPhee, whose most assiduously cultivated relationships these days are not with her corporate clients but with her players, like Mr. Muradia, on whom she lavishes agentlike services.

   • 2017 June 13, Helene Bienvenu, Palko Karasz, “In Anti-Soros Feud, Hungary Adopts Rules on Foreign-Financed Groups”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     “There is an important element in public life in Hungary which is not transparent and not open — and that is the Soros network, with its mafia-style operation and its agentlike organizations,” Mr. Orban said on state radio this month, referring to the philanthropic Open Society Foundations financed by Mr. Soros.

   • 2023 November 21, Ross Andersen, “OpenAI’s Chief Scientist Made a Tragic Miscalculation”, in The Atlantic‎^[3]:

     Even today, Sutskever remains haunted by the agentlike behavior of those that they built to play Dota 2, a multiplayer game of fantasy warfare.