noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a development agency (=organization that aims to help development in poor areas)
▪ international development agencies
a letting agent/agency (=one that arranges lettings)
a relief agency/organization
▪ Relief agencies reported that many of the refugees had arrived in a terrible condition.
a ticket agency (=a company that sells tickets for concerts, sporting events, etc)
▪ Book your tickets online from one of the many ticket agencies.
a voluntary organization/group/body/agency
▪ The day care scheme was run by a voluntary organization.
advertising agency
aid agency
▪ The sanctions could prevent international aid agencies from delivering food and medicine.
dating agency
employment agency
intelligence agencies/services etc
▪ In Britain there are three main intelligence organizations.
news agency
PR agency/firm/consultant
▪ a large PR firm
press agency
regulatory body/authority/agency
▪ New drugs have been approved by the regulatory authority.
travel agency
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
▪ The flexibility required of the policies implies a flexibility required of different agencies.
▪ The complaints prompted three different agencies to launch investigations.
▪ But in the mid-1970s there was an acrimonious conflict between the different intelligence gathering agencies in the province.
▪ Further uniformity was assured by a single system for auditing the numerous accounts rendered each year by the different financial agencies.
▪ Community care also depends crucially on cooperation between different professional workers, and between different service providing agencies.
▪ An organisation as big as the police has to turn to scores of different agencies.
▪ Social care is being provided by a variety of different agencies.
▪ Care in the community: formal agencies Different agencies offer domiciliary care in the community.
federal
▪ Once they do, the federal agency has just 20 days to issue its ruling on the proposed deal.
▪ Others are sponsored by ambitious federal agencies, sometimes with total disregard for the recommendations of other arms of government.
▪ Congress has surrendered vast powers to independent federal agencies over which it and the president have little or no authority.
▪ In effect, Congress repeatedly gave away a sizable chunk of power to the unelected civil servants who staff federal agencies.
▪ This latest edition, the first mandated by federal law, is to be promoted by federal agencies.
▪ Six years later, one of the federal agencies that administers the program calls it a flop.
free
▪ Dodger Vice President Fred Claire thinks his acquisition of a shortstop could come either through trade or free agency.
▪ Forty Niners president Carmen Policy called the lure of free agency a siren song.
▪ Each had a kind tale to tell about the person who ushered free agency into sports.
▪ Now, routinely, free agency is an option that must be considered in the annual personnel decisions of each team.
▪ Although the Supreme Court has upheld agency-shop provisions, states are still free to prohibit agency shops, and some do.
▪ They allowed quarterback Brad Johnson and wide receiver Albert Connell to leave the team via free agency.
▪ This form of free agency appears here to stay.
independent
▪ Thus, we would undoubtedly feel less happy if political polls were not carried out by independent agencies.
▪ The veto must be authorized by statute and may only negate what an Executive department or independent agency has proposed.
▪ Congress has surrendered vast powers to independent federal agencies over which it and the president have little or no authority.
▪ Numerous calls for increased powers for the independent agency will not be taken up.
▪ The Congressional Research Service is an independent agency that offers members of Congress objective analysis of issues and legislation.
▪ The Federal Reserve Board is an independent agency created by Congress.
▪ It has become a central means by which Congress secures the accountability of executive and independent agencies.
international
▪ Its target was international funding agencies and their clients.
▪ The euro-bond market Euro-bonds are issued by corporations, governments and international agencies, e.g. World Bank.
▪ The two doctors' efforts were amplified by visiting medical groups and support from international agencies.
▪ How the impact of television news turned Oxfam into an international agency.
▪ It appears to have done so this time only after reports of the blast began to filter out through international news agencies.
▪ Unicef was just one of the international agencies in Durban promising to rectify the slowness of its response.
▪ The proposed global consortium will be established in close collaboration with local ministries of health and international agencies.
large
▪ Unfortunately, he claimed, the main activities of large intergovernmental funding agencies had gone into the latter and not the former.
▪ You manage a telephone switchboard for a large governmental agency.
▪ From those humble beginnings, Oxfam has grown into Britain's largest aid agency with an income of nearly 70 million pounds.
▪ He is paid $ 148, 400 a year to preside over what is the largest civilian agency in the executive branch.
▪ Occasionally labour-only sub-contractors develop into large organisations or agencies with a significant control of a trade in a geographical area.
▪ They worked at a large advertising agency together and decided to go out on their own.
▪ Lowe Lintas is the country's largest advertising agency in terms of billings.
local
▪ If you need more information on the other types of charge contact your council or local advice agency.
▪ Case workers may be able to advise on grants or local agencies which may be able to provide help.
▪ One proposal in Indiana would eliminate the state welfare department altogether and place control for welfare with local agencies.
▪ The initiative will work in partnership with local agencies to address local community problems.
▪ Other local agencies seemed to be flourishing.
▪ Import duties, freight charges, local taxes, agency commission, were all built into the selling price.
▪ This support was available for up to eighteen months, after which time the local service agency assumed full responsibility for the service.
national
▪ The national news agency and the major publishing houses struck.
▪ N., the national agencies held veto power, giving them a privileged status befitting their clout and status.
▪ Direct empirical measurements are provided by national monitoring agencies including measurements of meteorological elements and of river discharge.
▪ The clerical work is handled by a national agency who services all the other groups in the company.
▪ As well as assignments commissioned by organisations, the Centre carries out research sponsored by national and international agencies.
▪ A small cluster of national agencies exists solely to service the local federations and their programs.
▪ The prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, has said he will set up a national disaster agency.
▪ The Government has unveiled a national agency to coordinate the rehabilitation and regulation of drug offenders.
new
▪ This initiative will go national soon, with the planned new agency operating next year.
▪ Environmental groups worry about whether the new agency will focus on protecting the environment or on attracting tourists.
▪ These new agencies will generally be within the civil service, and their star-f will continue to be civil servants.
▪ In addition, more than $ 1 billion of new agency debt was priced.
▪ A crucial innovation strategy has therefore involved the creation of new agencies for this purpose.
▪ Since her arrival, she has been shopping for a new advertising agency.
▪ The question is, will it take a new agency to achieve it?
▪ Charles Calderon, D-Montebello, that would create a new regulatory agency with lower fees and exemptions for some schools.
official
▪ On March 7 the official news agency Tass reported the appointment of Georgy Ostroumov as a presidential aide.
other
▪ The day care centre can often be the link to other agencies when special needs are identified.
▪ These people need to be enabled to act as representatives for their agencies and as link-persons with other agencies.
▪ Current pay levels are already below those offered by other space agencies.
▪ This may involve developing life plans with the individuals for whom they are responsible in isolation from other agencies.
▪ There are many other well-established agencies at work in most education authorities.
▪ The same holds true for all the other advice agencies in your area.
▪ They would be helped enormously if other agencies of enlightenment, particularly the schooling system, contributed to the task.
▪ Given the complexities and plural nature of urban development other agencies must be closely involved.
outside
▪ Self-help centres round modules developed by the company in collaboration with an outside training agency.
▪ Then I discovered Columbia had h4ed an outside agency to make these calls on their behalf.
▪ They can be primary or special schools, mixed groups of teaching and outside agency staff.
▪ A large electronic price board displays current in-house information in the Exchange, which is relayed to outside agencies.
▪ They are introduced to the day centre and attend regular training sessions organised by the project and other outside agencies.
▪ Support for the residents would be provided either by social services staff or workers from an outside agency.
▪ She documents the considerable difficulties involved for researchers in approaching bereaved families and countering the disapproval of many outside agencies.
▪ They reject help from outside agencies which they see as interfering and so often show a poor response to therapy and intervention.
private
▪ Oftel argues that the move to a single private agency would prevent several private companies offering rival emergency services.
▪ Home care is also provided by private home health agencies, hospitals and public health departments.
▪ However, there are going to be difficulties in developing private care agencies.
▪ After they published their final goals, they organized 12 committees to push the relevant public and private agencies to fulfill them.
▪ A large number of private care agency customers are elderly or disabled people who are not social services clients.
▪ In 1974 she and her husband, Charles Gottlieb, along with associates, founded Networks, a private mental health agency.
▪ Nine out of 10 directors say there should be compulsory registration of private care agencies.
▪ Whenever famine strikes, Western public and private relief agencies converge upon it with cargo planes, helicopters and land cruisers.
public
▪ Councils and other public agencies are threatened with tough penalties if they fail to improve.
▪ Typically, public agencies have to secure competitive bids for any procurement contract over a set amount-say, $ 5, 000.
▪ Both were achieved in partnership with other public agencies and the public itself.
▪ Modesto is also negotiating with other California cities, public agencies and private industries to provide power.
▪ Thus in Britain the grounds for review are summarized as illegality, irrationality or procedural impropriety by the public agency being challenged.
▪ Members of the council agreed to set up a joint initiative involving all public agencies.
▪ A public service agency spends so much time studying the financial implications of a project that cost overruns are virtually guaranteed.
regulatory
▪ The work of regulatory agencies was also undermined by budget cuts and a concerted unwillingness to enforce existing regulations.
▪ I hated all the regulations and the regulatory agencies that dogged my every step.
▪ Because he works for a regulatory agency.
▪ Insurers, financial institutions, regulatory agencies, libraries, museums and dealers in mechanical parts in a range of spheres.
▪ He has constantly tried to destroy the regulatory agencies.
▪ It is right and proper that there should be one regulatory agency.
▪ At the same time, regulatory agencies have demanded more from these centers, forcing them to do more with less money.
social
▪ The chapter concludes by discussing policy in social work agencies in the light of research findings, legal requirements and developing opinion.
▪ Municipal mayors, heads of nonprofit social service agencies, government bureaucrats, contractors and political party officials have all faced charges.
▪ For example, a social service agency might allow an experiment on different practice models.
▪ Secondary prevention may take place when an applicant is accepted as a client of a social work agency.
▪ Is a social service agency liable for failure to protect the child after the abuse has been reported?
▪ Aubyn said they recognized the benefits of having the Grand Forks social service agencies in one building.
various
▪ The laboratories supported by the various cancer research agencies have, of course, made many valuable discoveries.
▪ At this point, the administration has only 55 confirmed officials in the various departments and agencies.
▪ Schools were asked to indicate the kind of support they requested from the various agencies.
▪ Critics say the system risks public safety because it does not allow the various agencies to talk to one another during crises.
▪ There are various inter-agency trials issues groups considering Crown Court delay but with no real urgency.
▪ Top staff meetings at the White House and in the various agencies and departments are devoted to getting puff pieces written.
▪ He says that we should harness the expertise of the various agencies involved in health care.
▪ Mistrust and disagreements among the various police agencies operating in Baja California are nothing new.
voluntary
▪ Many of the statutory and voluntary agencies provide advice without charge.
▪ An alcohol problems voluntary agency helps Mrs F who has become involved in a family self-help group.
▪ All voluntary agencies funded by the Department of Social Work must also now operate a complaints procedure.
▪ North Manchester health authority was making emergency plans last night to use voluntary agencies to transfer patients between hospitals.
▪ The package is designed to be used with staff from health, social services, housing, voluntary and private agencies.
▪ The list of all the voluntary agencies concerned directly or indirectly with family welfare would be too long to provide here.
▪ It is, as I said, initiated and led by a voluntary agency.
▪ The problem with voluntary agencies is that their number and strength is inversely related to need.
■ NOUN
ad
▪ Equal numbers have congratulated the ad agency for reviving memories of the thrill of discovering a baby is on the way.
▪ Then, with the advent of ad agencies, the adverts themselves became commodities.
▪ Y., which works mainly for ad agencies and is following a Nielsen-like model of audience measurement through random sampling.
▪ Now, with up to 60 seconds of trailers, advertisers and ad agencies are beginning to get angry.
▪ The living was easy, and based in a squat, since Williams had abandoned his ad agency.
▪ The cost to the ad agencies ranges from 40 to $ 2 per thousand viewers.
advertising
▪ This company, at first attached to an advertising agency, later became an independent public relations consultancy.
▪ An engineering plant and an advertising agency are different and this difference will be reflected in their organisational design.
▪ Campaigns are designed and media are selected with the assistance of advertising agencies.
▪ They know that these well-tried and tested ways work, and do not need a scientist or advertising agency to sell them.
▪ Do not leave it entirely to the advertising agency or the personnel department.
▪ Saatchi and Saatchi, the advertising agency, has plunged into loss.
▪ The advertising agency prepared a series of large cards, depicting different aspects of the Docklands campaign.
▪ Responding to hard times, the world's biggest advertising agency is reshuffling its management.
aid
▪ And despite lobbying of government and foreign aid agencies in Ouagadougou, there is still nothing but the foundations in place.
▪ Unfortunately, governments, aid agencies and the United Nations have an extremely poor record of being able to organise anything.
▪ Under those circumstances, foreign aid agencies saw a vacuum which they felt themselves able to fill.
▪ They said their town had been overlooked by foreign aid agencies.
▪ Now it is up to the aid agencies to make life as comfortable and easy as possible for the refugees.
▪ One of the major problems is foreign aid agencies failing to find out what roles women play within society.
development
▪ Grants awarded: Grants worth £65,048 have been awarded to local development agencies by Cleveland County Council.
▪ The same strategy seems to have characterized the work of most development agencies in rural areas.
▪ Measures have included the setting up of regional development agencies, private- public partnership schemes and privately organised enterprise trusts.
▪ Career prospects include central and local government, teaching, the mass media, development agencies and librarianship.
▪ What new sources of information are needed to measure the social and economic performance of the development agencies? 4.
▪ Most of the main development agencies working in the Majority World now have goals to encourage women's self-sufficiency.
▪ While the work of the local development agencies should be supported, their performance should also be monitored.
employment
▪ One Harvard dealer had registered with an employment agency which stupidly sent his curriculum vitae to Harvard.
▪ For several months hence, Harvard dealers were reluctant to use employment agencies.
▪ Inspiration for the scheme came from Bristol's thriving employment agency that has been in existence for 14 years.
▪ Soon he was showing them to the leading head-hunters in employment agencies.
▪ Employment agencies Employment agencies used to be only for domestic and office staff.
▪ Via a back to nursing course organised by a nursing employment agency.
▪ Courses may also be advertised in local jobcentres and public libraries or on the display boards of local employment agencies.
enforcement
▪ In law enforcement agencies particularly, top officials have cleaned out their files and left nothing for an incoming administration.
▪ The controversy has led other law enforcement agencies to take another look at the chile pepper extract.
▪ In other words, the attributes of traditional crime are defined for the enforcement agency.
▪ Petersburg Times, was loaned by companies seeking to market the technology to law enforcement agencies.
▪ And statewide, only 215 of 750 law enforcement agencies reported any hate crimes.
▪ City officials chose not to join other law enforcement agencies seeking a renewal of the exemption.
▪ Thousands of officers from 10 law enforcement agencies lined Pennsylvania Avenue.
estate
▪ A similar assault can be observed in real estate as companies such as Century 21 gobble up local real estate agencies.
▪ Low cost endowment business through building society and estate agency connections up 19% despite reduced mortgage lending.
▪ The position John is applying for is as a trainee with a real estate agency.
▪ Nationwide announced that 300 redundancies will be made when it closes 58 of its 361 estate agency branches.
▪ More than 10% of its mortgages now spring from its estate agencies.
▪ In 1987 they began to acquire estate agencies.
government
▪ Both government agencies and large employers encouraged immigration from the Commonwealth to meet labour shortages throughout the 1950s.
▪ These potential sources of emerging infections are diverse and cross the lines of various scientific disciplines and government agency responsibilities.
▪ Treasury and other government agencies reduce education into commercial language to understand it.
▪ First it will examine the consultative arrangements which exist between a number of key government agencies and representative bodies.
▪ His firm works for a wide range of clients, including mining interests, ranchers and government agencies.
▪ Sources of welfare are the family, the voluntary sector and the private market rather than central or local government agencies.
▪ Rather they should refer complex enquiries to government agencies.
intelligence
▪ Since the cold war ended, many state intelligence agencies have struggled to justify their existence.
▪ Their intelligence agency, the Kempeitai, put out feelers to nationalists like Ngo Dinh Diem.
▪ But disasters like Blake and the Berlin tunnel do immense damage to the morale of intelligence agencies.
▪ As far as Marenches was concerned, the most important thing for a Western intelligence agency was to stop the spread of Communism.
news
▪ Papers relied increasingly on locally based stringers and news agencies.
▪ Andrei Krestyaninov, a commander of an elite rapid reaction force leading the attack, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
▪ He was also from 1978 managing director of the television news agency, Visnews.
▪ The vessel set sail late Tuesday for an undisclosed destination, the news agency said.
▪ About 100 Chechen rebels have been killed, news agencies said.
relief
▪ At the same time, the net has helped relief agencies raise further awareness-and money-about crisis situations.
▪ Jobs and relief agencies were scarce in northern cities, where anti-Negro sentiment kept growing.
▪ Whenever famine strikes, Western public and private relief agencies converge upon it with cargo planes, helicopters and land cruisers.
▪ The group mobilizes franchise systems' resources to help relief agencies during emergencies.
space
▪ Current pay levels are already below those offered by other space agencies.
▪ The space agency is using a phased approach.
▪ In early July, the space agency will select one of the companies as its industrial partner for the X-33.
▪ Despite serious technical obstacles, space agency officials are considering whether to launch a Jupiter space probe powered entirely by sunlight.
▪ The space agency would have preferred to talk instead about its plans to explore Mars.
▪ The space agency linked the problem to repairs made earlier that required the nozzles to be removed and replaced.
▪ The space agency has decided to delay start of construction of the controversial project for as much as 11 months.
state
▪ Thirdly, research is largely uncontrolled by democratic means even though it is directed by state agencies.
▪ We serve as a watchdog of coastal activities and a team worker with state agencies.
▪ It is commonly asserted that older people prefer to receive care from family members rather than state agencies.
▪ Banks must be written to, state agencies notified, pensions stopped.
▪ But there are also forms of direct access of interests to the state, notably through relationships with individual state agencies.
▪ The judge also barred provisions that would have allowed state agencies to investigate and report alleged illegal immigrants.
▪ Federal and state agencies are backlogged with complaints.
▪ The concept is unthinkable for any other state agency.
travel
▪ Nicholas Winton identified the state travel agency as the source of the trouble.
▪ Orient Tours, which deals only with travel agencies.
▪ The only retail travel agency in Britain specialising in passenger journeys on board cargo ships.
▪ Most packages can be booked through travel agencies.
▪ The travel agency industry has changed drastically since Thomas Cook's own day.
▪ Go to a travel agency you trust, and inquire if it does business with consolidators.
▪ Need help in checking on the reliability of a travel agency or tour operator?
■ VERB
advertise
▪ Leo Burnett, an advertising agency, has a far lower employee turnover than its rivals.
▪ Local advertising agencies will be hired to translate the strategy into a media campaign.
▪ At 18 he took a job as a junior copywriter for an advertising agency.
▪ All, apparently, were the work of a Toronto advertising agency with money to burn.
▪ They worked at a large advertising agency together and decided to go out on their own.
▪ A city official put his arm around a developer; the chief executive of an advertising agency greeted a banker.
▪ Backer &038; Spielvogel be-came one of the most successful advertising agencies in Americain record time.
▪ The advertising division was created in 1971 by national advertisers, advertising agencies and their trade groups, all interested in self-regulation.
report
▪ The Interfax news agency reported that Pope rejected Putin's offer, saying he preferred to wait for his own doctors.
▪ This is a hot line established by state child welfare agencies for the reporting of child abuse.
▪ But aid agencies report tens of thousands families so poor that they need help procuring flour, cooking oil and other basics.
▪ A few agencies reported that their efforts were under way.
▪ On March 7 the official news agency Tass reported the appointment of Georgy Ostroumov as a presidential aide.
▪ And statewide, only 215 of 750 law enforcement agencies reported any hate crimes.
▪ But critics say the agencies have only reported on the problems, not solved them.
▪ Andrei Krestyaninov, a commander of an elite rapid reaction force leading the attack, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
work
▪ She worked at a modelling agency.
▪ A working group of nonprofit agencies was set up to conduct the annual negotiations with the State Department.
▪ You could also try working for a nursing agency.
▪ Because he works for a regulatory agency.
▪ My grades were excellent and I had had hands-on work experience with marketing agencies in the West End.
▪ Bucky, works for the real-estate agency that sold me my land on Adams Hill in 1977.
▪ I enjoy working for the agency.
▪ Tom Kessinger, who worked at the rental agency.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
umbrella organization/group/agency etc
▪ About 130 professional and human-rights groups are folded into Concilio Cubano, a rickety umbrella group set up last year.
▪ Inpeg, the Czech environmentalist umbrella group that organised the protests, refused to condemn Molotov cocktails being thrown at police.
▪ La Raza is an umbrella group of almost 200 Hispanic advocacy groups.
▪ The umbrella group we'd formed in 1987 had fallen into abeyance, but the name still meant something.
voluntary organization/association/agency etc
▪ All voluntary agencies funded by the Department of Social Work must also now operate a complaints procedure.
▪ Do you belong to a voluntary organization?
▪ Local authorities or voluntary agencies should have provided the information, the association said.
▪ Many of the statutory and voluntary agencies provide advice without charge.
▪ The list of all the voluntary agencies concerned directly or indirectly with family welfare would be too long to provide here.
▪ The main voluntary agency dealing with literacy is Marxist.
▪ Think of your church, your synagogue, your voluntary organization.
▪ Under the initiative, voluntary agencies have received grants totalling £150,000.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a car rental agency
▪ The UN agency is responsible for helping refugees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Government agencies are created to perform according to different criteria from private business.
▪ However the FBI-style agency will not conduct its own investigations or prosecutions, although many Whitehall insiders believe this could eventually happen.
▪ In my government agency, we have independence-as an office, and as respected individuals within that agency.
▪ The study will have immediate relevance both in strengthening the capacity of the agencies dealing with the crisis and through transferability elsewhere.
▪ Then, of course, the whole process of formal education is a crucial socialising agency.
▪ There is no question but that agency rulemaking is lawmaking in any functional or realistic sense of the term....