The difference between Agent and Manager

When used as nouns, agent means one who exerts power, or has the power to act, whereas manager means a person whose job is to manage something, such as a business, a restaurant, or a sports team.

check bellow for the other definitions of Agent and Manager

  1. Agent as a noun:

    One who exerts power, or has the power to act

  2. Agent as a noun:

    One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him/her; someone entrusted to do the business of another

  3. Agent as a noun:

    A person who looks for work for another person

  4. Agent as a noun:

    Someone who works for an intelligence agency

  5. Agent as a noun:

    An active power or cause or substance; something which has the power to produce an effect

  6. Agent as a noun (computing):

    In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.

  7. Agent as a noun (grammar):

    The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".

  1. Manager as a noun (management):

    A person whose job is to manage something, such as a business, a restaurant, or a sports team.

  2. Manager as a noun (baseball):

    The head coach.

  3. Manager as a noun (music):

    An administrator, for a singer or group.

  4. Manager as a noun (computer software):

    A window or application whose purpose is to give the user the control over some aspect of the system.

    Examples:

    "a file manager; a task manager; Program Manager"

Compare words:

Compare with synonyms and related words: