Synonym: management, office, operation, work. Similar words: emergency, frequency, currency, tendency, efficiency, presidency, agent, agenda. Meaning: ['eɪdʒənsɪ] 
n. 1. an administrative unit of government 2. a business that serves other businesses 3. the state of being in action or exerting power 4. the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent 5. how a result is obtained or an end is achieved.
n. 1. an administrative unit of government 2. a business that serves other businesses 3. the state of being in action or exerting power 4. the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent 5. how a result is obtained or an end is achieved. 
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151 Dubos started from the assumption that all organic matter added to the soil eventually undergoes decomposition through the agency of micro-organisms.
152 Branson had arranged to see an advertising agency about Oldfield producing music for a commercial for Dulux paint.
153 But then the managing director of the advertising agency responsible for the advertisement owned up.
154 Finally,[Sentencedict.com ] an active regional policy was introduced through the agency of the Board of Trade.
155 Mather its advertising agency in charge of buying commercial spots on national radio networks.
156 The agency has promised action on the pollution problem for years, but nothing has happened.
157 The living was easy, and based in a squat, since Williams had abandoned his ad agency.
158 Read in studio An adoption agency with a difference has been set up to help find parents for orphan lambs.
159 There is no question but that agency rulemaking is lawmaking in any functional or realistic sense of the term....
160 It also limits the ability of agency heads to compete successfully for high-skilled senior talent.
161 The church for its part acted as an administrative agency of colonial expansion and a major institution of social control.
162 Then, of course, the whole process of formal education is a crucial socialising agency.
163 Telephone Mrs. Zaskey at the advertising agency.
164 Reporting from Beijing -- The private eyes in China's most famous detective agency rarely sleep, are relentless in pursuing their prey and can put Interpol and Homeland Security to shame.
165 But the agency does not regulate drinking-water quality for the rest of the nation's schools, which get their water from local utilities.
166 The candidate must provide verifiable information to the head - hunting agency.
167 Losing it would be a major embarrassment for Berlusconi, who was shaken last month by a high-profile corruption scandal concerning the head of the civil protection agency, a close aide.
168 The same principle is seen in the naturalisation of plants through man's agency in foreign lands.