agency (noun)
1agency — ► NOUN 1) an organization providing a particular service. 2) a government office or department providing a specific service. 3) action or intervention to produce a particular result …
2agency — agen·cy n pl cies 1: the person or thing through which power is exerted or an end is achieved death by criminal agency W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr. 2 a: a consensual fiduciary relationship in which one party acts on behalf of and under the… …
3agency — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ official ▪ federal, government, governmental, public, state ▪ regulatory ▪ UN …
4agency shop — noun : a shop in which the union serves as the agent for and receives dues and assessments from all employees in the bargaining unit regardless of union membership * * * a shop in which the union represents all workers in the bargaining unit and… …
5agency broker — ➔ broker1 * * * agency broker UK US noun [C] PROPERTY, STOCK MARKET ► a person or organization that buys and sells shares or property for another person or organization: »She works as an equity salesperson for one of London s biggest agency… …
6agency labour — UK US UK (US agency labor) noun [U] HR, WORKPLACE ► workers who are hired, especially temporarily, using an employment agency (= a business that is paid to find suitable workers for other companies and organizations): »The industry was accused of …
7agency — noun (plural cies) Date: 1640 1. a. the office or function of an agent b. the relationship between a principal and that person s agent 2. the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power ; …
8agency — noun 1) an advertising agency Syn: business, organization, company, firm, office, bureau 2) the infection is caused by the agency of insects Syn: action, activity, means, effect, influence …
9agency — noun /ˈeː.ʤən.si/ a) The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward. b) The office of an agent, or factor; the… …
10agency — (n.) 1650s, active operation, from M.L. agentia, noun of state from L. agentem (nom. agens) effective, powerful, prp. of agere (see ACT (Cf. act) (n.)). Meaning establishment where business is done for another first recorded 1861 …