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noun

agency n. (pl. agencies)

The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. "The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world."

The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another.

The place of business of an agent.

An organization or business that provides some service, primarily for other organizations; as, an advertising agency.

An administrative division of a government; as, a state welfare agency; a motor vehicle agency; the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Synonyms: Action; operation; efficiency; management.

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Etymology of 'Agency'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Agency" Quotes from Famous Books

... of July, 1838, the Royal Assent was given to "an Act for regulating the opening and working of mines and quarries in the Forest of Dean, and Hundred of St. Briavel's, by the agency of a Board of Commissioners." Thomas Sopwith, Esq., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was appointed by the Board of Woods and Forests a Commissioner for the purpose on behalf of the Crown; and John Probyn, Esq., of Longhope Manor-house, ...

— The Forest of Dean - An Historical and Descriptive Account • H. G. Nicholls

... of the Risorgimento? The "Italian people," to which some historians are now tending to attribute an important if not a decisive role in our struggle for national unity and independence, was hardly on the scene at all. The active agency was always an idea become a person—it was one or several determined wills which were fixed on determined goals. There can be no question that the birth of modern Italy was the work of the few. And it could not be otherwise. ...

— Readings on Fascism and National Socialism • Various

... a large number of animals are also found in the cave earth. The most abundant is the hyena, and no doubt they dragged in a great many others; but the agency of man is equally apparent, as the bones have often been split for the extraction of marrow. Besides bones of the hyena, we have also those of the lion, tiger, bear, ...

— The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen

... play a great political part. She had sought to render him a Mirabeau, she now dreamed of making him a Monk. From this day she conceived the idea of rescuing the king from the power of the Jacobins and Girondists—of carrying him off through the agency of M. de Narbonne and the constitutionalists—of re-seating him on the throne—of crushing the extreme parties, and establishing her ideal government—a liberal aristocracy. A woman of genius, her genius had the prejudices of her birth; a plebeian, who had found her way to court, it ...

— History of the Girondists, Volume I - Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution • Alphonse de Lamartine

... have had considerable difficulty in making themselves heard if they had wished to speak; but their thoughts were those that could be exchanged without the agency ...

— Ticket No. "9672" • Jules Verne

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