Agency

Noun

 * 1) The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.
 * 2) The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one entrusted with the concerns of another.
 * 3) The place of business of an agent.
 * 4) A bond issued by a US government-backed entity, such as Fannie Mae.
 * 5) (intelligence) An organization or individual engaged in collecting and/or processing information.

Adjectives for Agency
effective; volcanic; ordained; secret; external; conservative; all-sufficient; subtle; sole; appropriate; divine; supernatural; regulative ; luciferal ; technical ; bureaucratic; bargaining; ubiquitous; organized; conducive; charitable; law-enforcing; mitigating; curative;  myriad  (pl).

Verbs for Agency
administer; assume; consolidate; develop; create; employ; exclude from; license; obtain; operate; register with; require; squeeze (colloq.); terminate; weld -s into a unit; acts for; advocates; authorizes; charges; commissions; functions; handles; offers ; places; promotes ; recommends; stimulates; surrenders functions.

Etymology
agentia: agens: (present participle of agere:), agentis: (cognate with French agence:, see also agent:).

Thesaurus
action; activity; agent; agentship; antecedent; assignment; atelier; authority; authorization; barbershop; barter; bartering; beauty parlor; beauty shop; bench; brevet; brokerage; butcher shop; buying and selling; care; cause; change; channel; charge; commission; commissioning; commitment; commutation; company; concern; conduct; consignment; corporation; cure; dealing; delegated authority; delegation; deputation; deputyship; desk; determinant; device; devolution; devolvement; direction; displacement; doing business; driving; embassy; empowerment; energy; entrusting; entrustment; errand; establishment; exchange; execution; executorship; exequatur; exercise; expedient; facility; factorship; firm; force; full power; functioning; gear; give-and-take; going between; handling; horse trading; house; installation; institution; instrumentality; instrumentation; intercession; interchange; intermediation; intervention; jobbing; jurisdiction; legation; license; lieutenancy; loft; machinery; management; mandate; manipulation; means; mechanism; mediation; medium; merchandising; ministry; mission; occupation; office; operancy; operation; organ; organization; parlor; performance; performing; plenipotentiary power; power; power of attorney; power to act; practice; procuration; proxy; purview; quid pro quo; recourse; regency; regentship; replacement; representation; resort; responsibility; retailing; running; service; shop; steering; studio; subrogation; substitution; supersedence; superseding; supersedure; supersession; supplantation; supplanting; supplantment; swapping; sweatshop; switch; task; tit for tat; trade; trading; trafficking; trust; trusteeship; vehicle; vicarious authority; vicariousness; warrant; wheeling and dealing; wholesaling; work; work site; work space; workbench; workhouse; working; working space; workings; workplace; workroom; workshop; worktable

Synonyms
action; operation; efficiency; instrumentality; management

Derived terms
escort agency; relief agency; news agency; travel agency; press agency; dating agency; syndication agency

Related terms
act; action; agent

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, въздействие
 * Catalan: agència


 * Serbian: посредство


 * Bulgarian: посредничество,


 * Catalan: agència


 * Arabic: وكالة
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: agència
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 机构
 * Czech: ,
 * Esperanto: agentejo
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:


 * Hebrew: סוכנות (sokhnut)
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 대리점
 * Polish: agencja
 * Portuguese: agência
 * Romanian: agentie
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish: oficina, agencia
 * Vietnamese: cơ quan