Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

690. Agent — N. 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 &c 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 &c (instrument) 631; servant &c 746; representative &c (commissioner) 758, (deputy) 759. coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis [Lat.], dramatis personae [Lat.]; personnel. Phr. quorum pars magna fui [Lat.] [Vergil]; faber est quisque fortunae suae [Lat.].