OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 8576

agency

/ˈeɪ.d͡ʒən.si/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
albedrío
The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.
A few advances there are in the following papers tending to assert the superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world.
Because structure in this argument means institutions— pregiven norms, values, beliefs, and practices— it is open-textured, incomplete, cannot guarantee its own applications, there…
agencia
The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.
individual agency
moral agency
agencia
The office or function of an agent; also, the relationship between a principal and that person's agent.
authority of agency
agencia • oficina
An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency.
As an employment agency you have a responsibility to supply work to the individual agency worker, as well as a service to the client.
agencia
A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the district administered by, such unit of government.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Central Intelligence Agency
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