agency
noun, plural a·gen·cies.
Origin of agency
Synonyms for agency
Related Words for agency
department, firm, company, bureau, office, operation, force, organ, vehicle, medium, intercession, means, auspices, efficiency, work, influence, mechanism, mediation, instrument, activityExamples from the Web for agency
Contemporary Examples of agency
Something like fluoride, which is too small for normal filters, yanks away that feeling of agency.
Wisner continues to feel angry toward the agency because she believes she was misled.
Larson, as usual, instills gravitas and agency in an otherwise underwritten character.
It seems like you took a circuitous route, rather than coming up through some agency.
Well before the launch of the agency, the founders used their cameras to capture telling snippets of city life.
Historical Examples of agency
But the change had been effected among these by the agency of extreme want.
FreelandTheodor Hertzka
He fell to them with only a perfunctory acknowledgment of my agency in procuring them.
Ruggles of Red GapHarry Leon Wilson
Perkins came to him, Perkins who had an agency in Manchester.
Changing WindsSt. John G. Ervine
What shall be done with an agency so fierce and absorbing as this?
College TeachingPaul Klapper
There has been a 'flare-up' about money between Cashel and him, and it is said he 'll lose the agency.
Roland CashelCharles James Lever