agency

Definition

  • noun: a business that provides a particular service
  • noun: the office or function of an 'agent'
  • synonyms: action, activity, agent

Examples

  • The treaty was ratified 'through the agency of' a neutral country.

  • He found work as a mechanic through an 'employment agency'.

  • an athlete who has become eligible for 'free agency'

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) several years ago. The newspaper says FEMA was called out to manage an outbreak. Do you know what the Federal Emergency Management Agency's real power is? It can suspend constitutional government upon declaration of a national emergency. Think about that. What is such a powerful agency doing (..)
    1998 The X Files
  • (..) It was too well guarded. They bombed the other building... ...because it did have Federal officers there. The Federal Emergency Management Agency... ...had a quarantine office there, where the bodies were found. That's the thing you didn't know. The thing you'd never think to check. (..)
    1998 The X Files