agent

Roget category 690

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.3. Voluntary action
›› 5.3.1. Simple voluntary action

#690. Agent

noun

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^† — hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack — mere tool etc. 633 — beast of burden, drudge, fag — lumper^†, roustabout.
maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan — carpenter — ganger, platelayer — blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright.
machinist, mechanician, engineer.
sempstress^†, semstress^†, seamstress — needlewoman^†, workwoman — tailor, cordwainer^†.
minister etc. (instrument) 631 — servant etc. 746 — representative etc. (commissioner) 758, (deputy) 759.
coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis [Lat.], dramatis personae [Lat.] — personnel.

phrase

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

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