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   A·gen·cy

   /ˈājənsē/

   

   noun

   • 1. a business or organization established to provide a particular service, typically one that involves organizing transactions between two other parties: "an advertising agency" Similar businessorganizationcompanyfirmofficebureauconcernservicebranchrepresentative
   • ▪ a department or body providing a specific service for a government or similar organization: "the Environmental Protection Agency"
   • 2. action or intervention, especially such as to produce a particular effect: "canals carved by the agency of running water" Similar actionactivityeffectinfluenceforcepowerworkmeansvehiclemediuminstrumentmechanismroutechannelmodetechniqueexpedientinterventionintercessioninvolvementmediationarbitrationinterposinginstrumentalitygood officesauspicesaegis
   • ▪ a thing or person that acts to produce a particular result: "the movies could be an agency molding the values of the public"
   • 3. the office or function of an agent: "a contract of agency"

   Word Origin early 17th century (in the senses ‘position or function of an agent’ and ‘ability to act, activity’): from medieval Latin agentia, from agent- ‘doing’ (see agent).

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