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agent of production

British  

noun

  1. another name for factor of production

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The gain of one group or agent of production may simply be another's loss.

From The Settlement of Wage Disputes by Feis, Herbert

The broad fact, and it is a most important one, is that capital, a necessary agent of production, can never be monopolized.

From Monopolies and the People by Baker, Charles Whiting

Any addition to or subtraction from the capacity of any agent of production tends to affect not only its own income, but that of all claimants.

From The Settlement of Wage Disputes by Feis, Herbert

The reward of any one agent of production, for example, labor, depends not only on its own part in production, but upon the contribution of all other factors.

From The Settlement of Wage Disputes by Feis, Herbert

The present movement aims at a similar increase in the efficiency of labour as an agent of production.

From The War and Democracy by