house agent
Americannoun
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a real-estate agent.
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a renting agent or a rent collector.
noun
Etymology
Origin of house agent
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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Ms Stephens is also a house agent and fashion designer, and when she is not teaching, she is scouring the city for empty apartments to rent to clients.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2023
The Indian Agency House was built along the portage route between the Fox and Wisconsin rivers in 1832 to house agent John H. Kinzie and his wife, Juliette.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2020
While Agee and special agent Stephen Wells waited outside Katona's house, agent Kimmell and group supervisor Stephen St. Pierre went to Katona's office and waited for him to return from an errand.
From Time Magazine Archive
If this order were not obeyed he should at once put the letting of the place into the hands of a house agent.
From Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope
As the house agent said in his advertisement, eh?
From Witness to the Deed by George Manville Fenn
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