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Etymology

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sub- +‎ agent

Noun

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subagent (plural subagents)

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for subagent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)