noun (plural agencies)
1 a business or an organization that provides a particular service especially on behalf of other businesses or organizations:
an advertising / employment agency * You can book at your local travel agency. * international aid agencies caring for refugees
seealsoDATINGAGENCY, NEWSAGENCY, PRESSAGENCY
2 (especially AmE) a government department that provides a particular service:
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
IDIOMS
through the agency of (formal) as a result of the action of sb/sth:
He obtained his position through the agency of an old friend.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for agency is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does agency appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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