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agentry

American  
[ey-juhn-tree] / ˈeɪ dʒən tri /

noun

agentries plural
  1. the profession, business, or activities of an agent.

    one of the cleverest spies in the history of foreign agentry.


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Etymology

Origin of agentry

First recorded in 1920–25; agent + -ry

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One suspects that there is a better story in he agentry that got Novelist Sheldon's name worked into the movie's official title than in anything that is actually up there on the screen.

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The long spell between those streaks is a measure of how evenly matched the N.F.L. has become in the modern era of complex draft picks, free agentry and expansion.

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Brinkley objected to the way "the whole apparatus of press agentry and promotion is put to work ... promoting stars along with promoting news, to the point where it is not clear which is which."

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But press agentry, more than prowess, put St. Mary's on the map.

From Time Magazine Archive

You live on sleepdep and chat and secret agentry until it's second nature.

From Eastern Standard Tribe by Doctorow, Cory

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