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.
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121 However the FBI-style agency will not conduct its own investigations or prosecutions, although many Whitehall insiders believe this could eventually happen.
122 An engineering plant and an advertising agency are different and this difference will be reflected in their organisational design.
123 All, apparently, were the work of a Toronto advertising agency with money to burn.
124 In one, a top agency administrator was accused of improperly influencing contract bids.
125 Equal numbers have congratulated the ad agency for reviving memories of the thrill of discovering a baby is on the way.
126 The first black adoption agency, New Black Families[http://sentencedict.com], began to tackle the problem in 1980.
127 Exercise 10-2 A government programme is administered by an agency that aims to maximize the scale of provision.
128 In that case an advertising agency telephoned a transparency library with whom the agency had never previously dealt.
129 The problem is less acute in specialist fields identified to one particular agency.
130 Presumably its resources were thought to have been supplanted by those of the advertising agency that helped the Conservative Party to power.
131 One Harvard dealer had registered with an employment agency which stupidly sent his curriculum vitae to Harvard.
132 Agency staffers want the Commission to seek a Federal court injunction barring Microsoft from what they consider abusive practices.
133 It was adopted by those abolitionists who in a growing mood of frustration had also developed the agency system.
134 Housing activists argue the agency could sell more houses if it were more adept at reaching its target market.
135 In my government agency, we have independence-as an office(Sentencedict.com), and as respected individuals within that agency.
136 Culture is derived as a historical force prior to the existence of any individual subject, but is only realizable through agency.
137 Saatchi and Saatchi, the advertising agency, has plunged into loss.
138 There, the first step was to abolish the agency, with the expectation that competitive markets would then develop.
139 Thrift has nearly killed her on several occasions, through the agency of old sausages, slow-punctured tyres, rusty blades.
140 Any extra equipment or special materials he required could be obtained through the agency of the headquarters' staff.
141 And this lamb needs ewe ... the adoption agency that's proud of its woolly ways.
142 They worked at a large advertising agency together and decided to go out on their own.
143 At 18 he took a job as a junior copywriter for an advertising agency.
144 The £100m spent by the tobacco industry on advertising is not three times the budget of the Health Promotion Agency.
145 The agency apparently also wants to ease its administrative burdens under the contracting ordinance.
146 Like the photogram they were highly valued because of the absolute impersonality achieved in the tonal rendering through some mechanistic agency.
147 Two years ago, an advertising agency plastered the Paris Metro stations with posters featuring kissing couples for a soft drink promotion.
148 They know that these well-tried and tested ways work, and do not need a scientist or advertising agency to sell them.
149 The picture of an agency which dispassionately administers scientifically-designed standards is blurred further by organizational practices.
150 The payment of dividends therefore represents a trade-off between agency costs and flotation costs.