agency
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Medieval Latin agēns Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Medieval Latin -ius Medieval Latin -ia Medieval Latin agēntiabor. English agency From Medieval Latin agentia, from Latin agēns (present participle of agere (“to act”)), agentis (cognate with French agence, see also agent).
Definitions
The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.
- A few advances there are in the following papers tending to assert the superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world.
The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.
- moral agency
- individual agency
A medium through which power is exerted or an end is achieved.
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The office or function of an agent
The office or function of an agent; also, the relationship between a principal and that person's agent.
- authority of agency
An establishment engaged in doing business for another
An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency.
- As an employment agency you have a responsibility to supply work to the individual agency worker, as well as a service to the client.
A department or other administrative unit of a government
A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the district administered by, such unit of government.
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
- Central Intelligence Agency
The neighborhood
- synonymaction
- synonymactivity
- synonymagency
- synonymagent
- synonymagentship
- synonymcause
- synonymdevice
- synonymforce
- synonymfunction
- synonymmeans
- synonymoperation
- synonympower
- antonymnonagency
- neighboract
- neighboraction
- neighboragent
- neighboradvertising agency
- neighboragency credit memo
- neighboragency debit memo
- neighboragency dilemma
- neighboragency pricing
- neighboragency problem
- neighboragency shop
- neighboralphabet agency
- neighborcabinet agency
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at agency. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at agency. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at agency
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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