Definition of agency

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Agency (n.) The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another..

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Action :: Action (n.) A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action..
Ministry :: Ministry (n.) Agency; instrumentality.
Causality :: Causality (n.) The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice..
Pyromagnetic :: Pyromagnetic (a.) Acting by the agency of heat and magnetism; as, a pyromagnetic machine for producing electric currents..
Vaporable :: Vaporable (a.) Capable of being converted into vapor by the agency of heat; vaporizable.
Liquefaction :: Liquefaction (n.) The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat..
Heavenly :: Heavenly (adv.) By the influence or agency of heaven.
Self-acting :: Self-acting (a.) Acting of or by one's self or by itself; -- said especially of a machine or mechanism which is made to perform of or for itself what is usually done by human agency; automatic; as, a self-acting feed apparatus; a self-acting mule; a self-acting press..
Machine :: Machine (n.) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit..
Sponge :: Sponge (n.) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven..
Subagent :: Subagency (n.) A subordinate agency.
Counterbalance :: Counterbalance (n.) A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another.
Mischief :: Mischief (n.) Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by thoughtlessness, or in sport..
Bedevil :: Bedevil (v. t.) To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment..
Instrumentalness :: Instrumentalness (n.) Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality..
Educe :: Educe (v. t.) To bring or draw out; to cause to appear; to produce against counter agency or influence; to extract; to evolve; as, to educe a form from matter..
Agential :: Agential (a.) Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency.
Tool :: Tool (n.) A person used as an instrument by another person; -- a word of reproach; as, men of intrigue have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes..
Theandric :: Theandric (a.) Relating to, or existing by, the union of divine and human operation in Christ, or the joint agency of the divine and human nature..
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