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agency

Meaning in simple English

US /ˈeɪdʒənsi/

agency means: An organization that carries out a particular job for the government.

noun

GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONB2

An organization that carries out a particular job for the government.

  • The agency investigates serious crimes.
  • She worked for a national intelligence agency.
  • Government agencies shared information about the flood.

Similar words: department, bureau

Common phrases: intelligence agency, government agency, federal agency

GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONB2

An organization that carries out a particular job for the government.

  • The agency investigates serious crimes.
  • She worked for a national intelligence agency.
  • Government agencies shared information about the flood.

Similar words: department, bureau

Common phrases: intelligence agency, government agency, federal agency

GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONB2

An organization that carries out a particular job for the government.

  • The agency investigates serious crimes.
  • She worked for a national intelligence agency.
  • Government agencies shared information about the flood.

Similar words: department, bureau

Common phrases: intelligence agency, government agency, federal agency, public agency

POWER TO ACTC1

The ability to make your own choices and act to influence what happens.

  • The children need a sense of agency.
  • Having choices gives patients greater agency.
  • The study examines human agency in social change.

Similar words: autonomy, self-determination

Common phrases: personal agency, human agency, sense of agency

ACTING FOR ANOTHERC2

The role or legal relationship of someone who acts for another person.

  • They signed an agency agreement.
  • The court examined the agency relationship between the two parties.
  • Agency gives her authority to act for the owner.

Similar words: representation

Common phrases: agency agreement, agency relationship, law of agency

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