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house agent

noun

, British.
  1. a real-estate agent.
  2. a renting agent or a rent collector.


house agent

noun

  1. another name for estate agent


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Word History and Origins

Origin of house agent1

First recorded in 1835–45

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Example Sentences

A house agent would have described it as a most desirable residence, standing in its own grounds, overlooking the sea.

Early in the afternoon he was back in Chelsea, making fraudulent representations to the house-agent near the Vestry Hall.

I took her hand, and gave it a firm grip, and we went into the house-agent's together.

The said house agent had come down with one secret object in his heart.

A house agent who is merely instructed to act in the usual way of his calling has no authority to bind his employer by a contract.

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