1. A business or organization that provides a particular service, especially the mediation of transactions between two parties
   "The employment agency helped her find a new job"
    
2. An administrative unit of government
   "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "The EPA is a federal agency responsible for environmental protection";
   - federal agency, government agency, bureau, office, authority
    
3. The state of being in action or exerting power
   "the agency of providence"; "she has free agency"
    
4. To have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
   "an example is the best agency of instruction";
   - means, way
    
5. The state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent
   "The agency of the firm was terminated after the scandal";
   - representation, delegacy

Derived forms: agencies

Type of: action, activeness, activity, administrative body, administrative unit, business, business concern, business organisation [Brit], business organization, concern, effectuation, implementation, state

Encyclopedia: Agency, MT