agentry
Americannoun
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agentries
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Etymology
Origin of agentry
Example Sentences
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
But press agentry, more than prowess, put St. Mary's on the map.
From Time Magazine Archive
British Author Lyall, one of the better new Bondmen, fills his book with fine local color and crafty foreign agentry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kingsley Amis, whose The James Bond Dossier shows a theoretical as well as a practical interest in secret agentry, plays fair with the reader.
From Time Magazine Archive
You live on sleepdep and chat and secret agentry until it's second nature.
From Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow
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