agencya‧gen‧cy /ˈeɪdʒənsi/ ●●○ W3 noun (plural agencies) [countable] 
a local housing agency → dating agency, news agency2an organization or department, especially within a government, that does a specific job: a UN agency responsible for helping refugees the Environmental Protection Agency3by/through the agency of somebody formal being done as the result of someone’s help
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a car rental agency
- The UN agency is responsible for helping refugees.
- 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...
WORD SETS
admin, nounadministration, nounadministrative, adjectiveadministrator, nounagency, nounagent, nounbalance sheet, nounbazaar, nounbid, nounbid, verbbig business, nounbook value, nounboss, nounbottom line, nounbranch, nouncapacity, nouncapital, nouncapital assets, nouncapital gains, nouncapital goods, nouncapital-intensive, adjectivecapitalist, nouncard, nouncentralize, verbcompetitiveness, nounconsultancy, nouncontract, nouncontract, verbcost-effective, adjectivecoupon, nouncritical path, noundecentralize, verbdeveloper, noundistiller, noundistributor, noundiversify, verbdownsize, verbeconomics, nounenterprise, nounentrepreneur, nounestablishment, nounfashion, nounfly-by-night, adjectivefold, verbfoodstuff, nounform letter, nounfranchise, verbfranchisee, noungazump, verbgearing, noungeneric, adjectiveget, verbhard sell, nounhaute couture, nounhigh season, nounhigh technology, nounhike, nounhike, verbloss, nounlow-tech, adjectivemaximize, verbMD, nounmerchandise, verbmerchandising, nounmerger, nounmiddleman, nounmiller, nounmission statement, nounmom-and-pop, adjectivemoneygrabbing, adjectivemoneymaker, noun-monger, suffixmonopolistic, adjectivemonopoly, nounnet, adjectivenet, verbniche, nounoff-the-peg, adjectiveopening time, nounoperation, nounoperational, adjectiveoperator, nounoption, nounoutlay, nounoutlet, nounoutput, nounoutwork, nounoverhead, nounoverstock, verbpackage, nounpartner, nounpartnership, nounpatent, nounpayola, nounpercentage, nounpiracy, nounpremium, nounprivate practice, nounprivatization, nounprivatize, verbprofitability, nounproprietor, nounproprietress, nounpurchase price, nounpurchasing power, nounquiet, adjectiveR & D, nounrate of return, nounrecall, verbreject, nounrep, nounresearch and development, nounrestrictive practices, nounrevenue, nounsell, verbservice industry, nounsleeping partner, nounspeculate, verbspeculation, nounspeculative, adjectivestreet value, nounsubtotal, nounswap meet, nounsweatshop, nounsyndicate, nounsystems analyst, nountake, nountender, nountie-up, nounTM, transact, verbtransaction, nounturnover, nounundersell, verbuneconomic, adjectiveunit, noununprofitable, adjectivevideo conferencing, nounwatchdog, nounwheeler-dealer, nounwheeling and dealing, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a local housing agencyCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES In Britain there are three main intelligence organizations. a large PR firm New drugs have been approved by the regulatory authority.
a local housing agency· The sanctions could prevent international aid agencies from delivering food and medicine.
(=organization that aims to help development in poor areas)· international development agencies
In Britain there are three main intelligence organizations. (=one that arranges lettings)
a large PR firm New drugs have been approved by the regulatory authority.· Relief agencies reported that many of the refugees had arrived in a terrible condition.
(=a company that sells tickets for concerts, sporting events etc)· Book your tickets online from one of the many ticket agencies.
· The day care scheme was run by a voluntary organization.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· On March 7 the official news agency Tass reported the appointment of Georgy Ostroumov as a presidential aide.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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· 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 & 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.
· 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.
· 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 THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1a business that provides a particular service for people or organizationsan advertising/employment/travel etc agency- Any extra equipment or special materials he required could be obtained through the agency of the headquarters' staff.
- Dubos started from the assumption that all organic matter added to the soil eventually undergoes decomposition through the agency of micro-organisms.
- Finally, an active regional policy was introduced through the agency of the Board of Trade.
- It is then enforced and upheld by the agencies of the state.
- It operates through the agencies of the different control systems such as the autonomic nervous system, hormonal system, immune system etc.
- Thrift has nearly killed her on several occasions, through the agency of old sausages, slow-punctured tyres, rusty blades.
- 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.
- 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.
a local housing agency → dating agency, news agency2an organization or department, especially within a government, that does a specific job: a UN agency responsible for helping refugees the Environmental Protection Agency3by/through the agency of somebody formal being done as the result of someone’s help- unparalleled
- unpardonable
- unpardonably
- unpatriotic
- unpaved
- UN peacekeeping force
- unpeeled
- unperturbed
- unpick
- unplaced
- unplanned
- unplayable
- unpleasant
- unpleasantly
- unpleasantness
- unplug
- unplugged
- unpopular
- unpopularity
- unprecedented
- unprecedentedly
- unpredictability
- unpredictable
- unpredictably
- unprepared