Roget's Thesaurus: Entry 690 (Agent)

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#690. Agent.-- N. doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator; executor, executrix; practitioner, worker, stager.

bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant; laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum.

workman, artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative; working man; laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy[obs]; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack; mere tool &c. 633; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper[obs], roustabout.

maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan; carpenter; ganger, platelayer; blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright.

machinist, mechanician, engineer.

sempstress[obs], semstress[obs], seamstress; needlewoman[obs], workwoman; tailor, cordwainer[obs].

minister &c. (instrument) 631; servant &c. 746; representative &c. (commissioner) 758, (deputy) 759.

coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis[Lat], dramatis personae[Lat]; personnel.

Phr. quorum pars magna fui [Lat][Vergil]; faber est quisque fortunae suae [Lat].