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ADVANCE AGENT

Specialty Definition: ADVANCE AGENT

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Occupations

Coordinates business and promotional activities concerned with production of entertainment in advance of touring theatrical company, circus, road show, motion picture, or other attraction: Inspects performance location and reports condition, and if stage presentation, inspects equipment and accommodations of theatre, such as size of stage, seating capacity, and number of dressing rooms. Completes business details, such as advance sale of tickets and lodging for members of touring group. Purchases advertising space or spot announcements in newspapers, radio and television, and other media. Distributes posters, signs, and other displays to stimulate interest in coming attraction and promote box-office sales [PUBLIC-RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVE (profess. & kin.)]. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: ADVANCE AGENT

Specialty definitions using "ADVANCE AGENT": PIE. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: ADVANCE AGENT

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Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion. Cold pie was highly esteemed by the remains. Rev. Dr. Mucker (in a funeral sermon over a British nobleman) Cold pie is a detestable American comestible. That's why I'm done -- or undone -- So far from that dear London. (from the headstone of a British nobleman in Kalamazoo)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ADVANCE AGENT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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advance agent income novel

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: ADVANCE AGENT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-d-e-e-g-n-n-t-v"

-3 letters: advantage.

-4 letters: caveated, tangence, tendance, vanadate.

-5 letters: advance, andante, avenged, candent, canteen, catenae, enacted, encaged, negated, tannage, vacated, vantage, vendace, ventage.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ADVANCE AGENT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 44 56 41 4E 43 45      41 47 45 4E 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000100 01010110 01000001 01001110 01000011 01000101 00100000 01000001 01000111 01000101 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#68 &#86 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#69 &#32 &#65 &#71 &#69 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0044 0056 0041 004E 0043 0045      0041 0047 0045 004E 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3538563548373923541394854

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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