Difference between Trustee and Agent

What is the difference between Trustee and Agent?

Trustee as a noun is a person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process. while Agent as a noun is one who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.

Trustee

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate. To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor.

Agent

Part of speech: noun

Definition: One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a powerful agent.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.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".

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