Definitions for agencies

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agencies a·gen·cy

Spelling: [ey-juh n-see]

IPA: /ˈeɪ dʒən si/

Agencies is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 245 anagrams from letters in agencies (aceegins).

Definitions for agencies

noun

1. an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another:
2. a company having a franchise to represent another.
3. a governmental bureau, or an office that represents it.
4. the place of business of an agent.
5. Indian agency.
6. an administrative division of a government.
7. the duty or function of an agent.
8. the relationship between a principal and his or her agent.
9. the state of being in action or of exerting power; operation:
10. a means of exerting power or influence; instrumentality:

Origin of agencies

1650-60; Medieval Latin agentia, equivalent to Latin ag- (root of agere to do, act, manage) + -entia -ency

Examples for agencies

Larson, as usual, instills gravitas and agency in an otherwise underwritten character.

Something like fluoride, which is too small for normal filters, yanks away that feeling of agency.

He fell to them with only a perfunctory acknowledgment of my agency in procuring them.

Wisner continues to feel angry toward the agency because she believes she was misled.

It seems like you took a circuitous route, rather than coming up through some agency.

Perkins came to him, Perkins who had an agency in Manchester.

What shall be done with an agency so fierce and absorbing as this?

There has been a 'flare-up' about money between Cashel and him, and it is said he 'll lose the agency.

But the change had been effected among these by the agency of extreme want.

Well before the launch of the agency, the founders used their cameras to capture telling snippets of city life.