agencynoun
uk/ˈeɪ.dʒən.si/us/ˈeɪ.dʒən.si/agency noun (ORGANIZATION)
B1 [ C ] a business that represents one group of people when dealing with another group:
an advertising/employment/estate/travel agency
C1 [ C ] a government organization:
an overseas aid agency
the Central Intelligence Agency
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- The advertising agency secured the contract on the back of their previous successful campaigns.
- The holiday was cancelled so the travel agency had to refund everybody the price of the tickets.
- The duty of the agency is to act in the best interests of the child.
- For several years she operated a dating agency from her basement flat.
- The agency was not accredited by the Philippine Consulate to offer contracts to Filipinos abroad.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Enterprises
- acquirer
- acquiror
- airline
- answering service
- auction house
- automaker
- carrier
- collective
- est
- establishment
- firm
- fragmented
- franchise
- franchisee
- outfit
- private company
- private practice
- Pty
- public company
- public limited company
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UK politics: government departments & organizations
agency noun (ACTIONS)
through the agency of sb formal
because of the actions of someone:
She was freed from prison through the agency of her doctor.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Acting and acts
- (your) every move idiom
- -ation
- act/do sth on your own responsibility idiom
- action
- activity
- ant
- be up to sth idiom
- bestir
- feel
- gambit
- give yourself over/up to sth
- go about sth
- go about your business idiom
- go through with sth
- hand
- initiative
- manoeuvre
- manoeuvring
- money
- up to
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