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Agencies

agency \a"gen*cy\ ([=a]"jen*s[y^]), n.; pl. Agencies ([=a]"jen*s[i^]z). [agentia, fr. L. agens, agentis: cf. F. agence. See Agent.]

  1. 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.

  2. The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another.

  3. The place of business of am agent.

    Syn: Action; operation; efficiency; management.

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agencies

n. (plural of agency English)

Usage examples of "agencies".

International organizations and aid agencies have consistently found that diarrheal and respiratory illnesses were the biggest killers in Iraq.

They kept their scientists and engineers together in their preexisting teams, still working on WMD projects but dispersed and attached to bland government agencies where Baghdad assumed the inspectors would never think to look.

He built multiple agencies with redundant missions and responsibilities to ensure that nothing would be missed, and to create rivalries that would allow him to play one group off against another.

I believe both Mercheson and Ogun-aiji may be in immediate danger from various persons and agencies ill-disposed toward the treaty.

Moreover, the public and legislative backlash against the gathering of surfer's data by Internet ad agencies and other web sites - has led to growing ignorance regarding the profile of Internet users, their demography, habits, preferences and dislikes.

At every stage the agencies assisted us in opening our technology centre and staffing it with trained and competent eBook professionals.

But as Registration Agencies proliferate, competition is bound to slash these prices precipitously.

The public and legislative backlash against the gathering of surfers' data by Internet ad agencies and other web sites - has led to growing ignorance regarding the profile of Internet users, their demography, habits, preferences and dislikes.

Advertising agencies will be able to co-produce ad campaigns in a real time interactive mode.

Considering the several facts given in this chapter, we see that the course followed by a root through the soil is governed by extraordinarily complex and diversified agencies,--by geotropism acting in a different manner on the primary, secondary, and tertiary radicles,--by sensitiveness to contact, different in kind in the apex and in the part immediately above the apex, and apparently by sensitiveness to the varying dampness of different parts of the soil.

In the second subclass the modification depends to a large extent on external agencies, such as the daily alternations of light and darkness, or light alone, temperature, or the attraction of gravity.

That this power is innate, and is not excited by any external agencies, beyond those necessary for growth and vigour, is obvious.

We will therefore speak of circumnutation, which is always in progress, as modified by epinasty, hyponasty, geotropism, or other agencies, whether internal or external.

However, none of the Western agencies has found any evidence of sustained contact or cooperation.

My division chief, Winston Wiley, and his deputy, Bruce Riedel, fought constant battles with other intelligence agencies to sound more ominous warnings about Iraq's WMD programs, particularly its nuclear weapons program.