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1. 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 business, organization, company, firm, office, ... morebureau, concern, service, branch, representative
   • ▪ 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 action, activity, effect, influence, force, ... morepower, work, means, vehicle, medium, instrument, mechanism, route, channel, mode, technique, expedient, intervention, intercession, involvement, mediation, arbitration, interposing, instrumentality, good offices, auspices, aegis
   • ▪ 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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