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A business or organization providing a particular service
“Selling or renting a home through a real estate agency represents a cost that will vary depending on the type of agency chosen.”
An action or means producing a particular effect
“Personal property is too precarious and invisible a fund to be laid hold of in any other way than by the imperceptible agency of taxes on consumption.”
An instrument or tool producing a particular effect
“The marks of percussion here described, including those of the ineffective blows, can be produced only by the agency of a hammer held by a human hand intentionally striking a stone.”
An intervention or act of arbitration (producing a particular effect)
“This can be best effected, in my opinion, through the agency of the Board of Currency.”
Help, assistance or service provided on a particular matter
“Renold has published a paper defining the fundamental concepts of the nature of industrial management as a process of getting things done through the agency of the community.”
A group of people constituted as the decision-making body of an organization
Protection, support or guardianship (in a figurative sense)
One who speaks on behalf of an organization or another person
The state of being active, operative, or effective
The authority to perform a task or certain duties
Participation in doing something
The capacity or potential for achieving results
A government-owned agency
A printed sheet published periodically
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