Meaning of agency | Babel Free

Definitions

1. agency (the office or function of an agent)
2. The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.
   countable, uncountable
3. The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.
   countable, uncountable
4. agency (an establishment engaged in doing business for another)
5. A medium through which power is exerted or an end is achieved.
   countable, uncountable
6. branch (a location of an organization)
7. The office or function of an agent; also, the relationship between a principal and that person's agent.
   countable, uncountable
8. agency (administrative unit of government)
9. An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency.
   countable, uncountable
10. pawnshop
11. A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the district administered by, such unit of government.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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, therefore, all behavior is action, has agency (Garfinkel 1964; Strauss et al. 1963).”

“moral agency”

“individual agency”

“Formally, capitalism performs its fundamental gesture—reappropriation without transformation. This bears on the question of subjective agency because this “reappropriation without transformation” is exactly what agency seeks to avoid; such a process indicates, in fact, that one's agency has failed, that one really had no agency in the first place.”

“Strictly speaking, at the level of personal agency one could say that power is a condition where one is “enabled.” I would contend that this is a condition of personal agency.”

“The feeling of being in control of one's body should involve the sense of body-ownership, plus an additional sense of agency.”

“SCP-3125 incarnated the following winter. Its first act upon its arrival — or, depending on the degree of intelligent agency you ascribed to it, the first side-effect of its arrival — was the neutralisation of the Foundation.”

“authority of 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.”

“Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry”

“Central Intelligence Agency”

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