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  • noun Working as an agent (one who acts for another).

Etymologies

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agent +‎ -ing

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Examples

  • There should seriously be Publishing Assistants Anonymous meetings for those beginning in agenting and editorial.

    MONDAY 2009

  • Before there was a world wide web, they were making "agenting" and art.

    They like me...but it's still no Miss Snark 2006

  • Less than a year after she was "rescued" by Claire Powell, the agent who created Jordan from a couple of bits of leftover pink satin and some stray silicon implants, and who is to agenting what Simon Cowell is to talent show judging – fair, generous, even-handed, no, hold on, that's not quite right – she has been dumped.

    If you want to bag a royal, study Botticelli | Carole Cadwalladr 2011

  • Makes me wonder what writing/agenting/publishing event we'd illustrate with a blowup sex doll ...

    Today's Self-Publishing Analogy 2009

  • Less than a year after she was "rescued" by Claire Powell, the agent who created Jordan from a couple of bits of leftover pink satin and some stray silicon implants, and who is to agenting what Simon Cowell is to talent show judging – fair, generous, even-handed, no, hold on, that's not quite right – she has been dumped.

    If you want to bag a royal, study Botticelli | Carole Cadwalladr 2011

  • Whether a student goes on to become a known writer in the field, or contributes in other ways (editing, publishing, agenting, academicking), Clarion is an experience that's worth it.

    julieandrews: Clarion Write-A-Thon julieandrews 2010

  • What about their “FAIR GAME” policy which is still very much practiced, or dead agenting another despicable practice.

    Scientology versus the Wikipedia 2009

  • They worry a lot about the agenting, about the publishing, and not quite enough about the actual book.

    msagara: Answering another question about agents msagara 2009

  • What about their “FAIR GAME” policy which is still very much practiced, or dead agenting another despicable practice.

    Scientology versus the Wikipedia 2009

  • Whether a student goes on to become a known writer in the field, or contributes in other ways (editing, publishing, agenting, academicking), Clarion is an experience that's worth it.

    Clarion Write-A-Thon julieandrews 2010

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