Definitions for agency

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agency a·gen·cy

Spelling: [ey-juh n-see]

IPA: /ˈeɪ dʒən si/

Agency is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in agency (acegny).

Definitions for agency

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 agency

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

Examples for agency

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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