active agent

collocation in English

meaningsofactiveandagent

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active
adjective
uk
/ˈæk.tɪv/us
/ˈæk.tɪv/
busy with a ...
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agent
noun[C]
uk
/ˈeɪ.dʒənt/us
/ˈeɪ.dʒənt/
a person who acts for or ...
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(Definition ofactiveandagentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofactive agent

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Text can then offer itself as anactiveagentin performance and become an object in itself for performers to work with.
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In stark contrast, in cases where fer tilization is not successful, the egg becomes theactiveagentthat is responsible for the failure.
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However, it is possible to push this argument to such an extent that theactiveagentis in danger of disappearing from the process altogether.
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The most important effect is to restore the extra-parliamentary party to its rightful place as anactiveagentin party history.
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Futility trials are conceived of as one-arm studies in which all participants receive theactiveagent, and their outcomes are compared to a pre-specified value.
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This overlap in side effects provides a justification for controlling eachactiveagentwith anotheractiveagentrather than with placebo.
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It is this which is theactiveagentin preventing dental decay.
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Who would suggest that corporal punishment is anactiveagentof reform?
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We must see that the media do not take a neutral attitude but become anactiveagentof change.
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He has become anactiveagentfor their propagation.
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It is theactiveagentof one of the forms of curare.
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The drug is a precursor of theactiveagent, which is metabolized by the liver into its active form.
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The drug is in the form of an inactive lactone that is hydrolyzed after ingestion to produce theactiveagent.
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This hydride is theactiveagentfor hydroformylation reactions.
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Wolf was anactiveagentin his father's financial transactions, and shared his dignity as court factor.
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In contrast to differential prediction, uplift modelling assumes anactiveagent, and uses the uplift measure as an optimization metric.
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