agency

  • 41agency — A fiduciary relationship by which a person confides to another the management of some business to be transacted in the former s name or on his account, and by which such other person assumes to do the business and render an account of it. In its… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 42agency — In intelligence usage, an organization or individual engaged in collecting and/or processing information. Also called collection agency. See also agent; intelligence process; source …

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  • 43agency — noun /ˈeː.ʤən.si/ a) 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. b) The office of an agent, or factor; the… …

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  • 44agency — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Means of producing effects Nouns 1. (act of an agent) agency, operation; working, power, function; office, exercise, play, work; interworking, interaction; causality, causation (See cause);… …

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  • 45agency — noun 1》 a business or organization providing a particular service.     ↘a government office or department providing a specific service for a state. 2》 action or intervention so as to produce a particular result: canals carved by the agency of… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 46agency — 1. An alternative term for *agency theory. 2. An organization that performs intermediary services, such as hiring personnel or providing security services …

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  • 47agency — a•gen•cy [[t]ˈeɪ dʒən si[/t]] n. pl. cies 1) an organization, company, or bureau that provides a particular service: a welfare agency[/ex] 2) gov a government bureau or administrative division 3) a company having a franchise to represent another… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 48Agency (law) — Agency is an area of commercial law dealing with a contractual or quasi contractual tripartite set of relationships when an Agent is authorized to act on behalf of another (called the Principal) to create a legal relationship with a Third Party.… …

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  • 49Agency (LDS Church) — Agency (also referred to as free agency or moral agency), in Latter day Saint theology, is the privilege of choice which was introduced by God the Eternal Father to all of his spirit children in the premortal state .cite journal | first= Elder… …

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  • 50Agency.com — is an interactive marketing agency based in New York City with offices worldwide. The company is a part of Omnicom Group Inc. [ [http://www.hoovers.com/agency.com/ ID 58843 /free co factsheet.xhtml Agency.com Company Overview Hoover s ] ] [ [http …

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