Definition of agency

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Agency (n.) The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.

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Mean :: Mean (n.) That through which, or by the help of which, an end is attained; something tending to an object desired; intermediate agency or measure; necessary condition or coagent; instrument..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice..
Estoppel :: Estoppel (n.) The agency by which the law excludes evidence to dispute certain admissions, which the policy of the law treats as indisputable..
Operation :: Operation (n.) The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral..
Residency :: Residency (n.) A political agency at a native court in British India, held by an officer styled the Resident; also, a Dutch commercial colony or province in the East Indies..
Supernaturalist :: Supernaturalism (n.) The doctrine of a divine and supernatural agency in the production of the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in the grace which renews and sanctifies men, -- in opposition to the doctrine which denies the agency of any other than physical or natural causes in the case..
Biogeny :: Biogeny (n.) A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- opposed to abiogenesis.
Instrumentalness :: Instrumentalness (n.) Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality..
Bedevil :: Bedevil (v. t.) To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment..
Efficiency :: Efficiency (n.) The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency.
Sponge :: Sponge (n.) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven..
Proxy :: Proxy (n.) The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity..
Subagent :: Subagency (n.) A subordinate agency.
Pyrogen :: Pyrogen (n.) A poison separable from decomposed meat infusions, and supposed to be formed from albuminous matter through the agency of bacteria..
Pyocyanin :: Pyocyanin (n.) A blue coloring matter found in the pus from old sores, supposed to be formed through the agency of a species of bacterium (Bacillus pyocyaneus)..
Tetanin :: Tetanin (n.) A poisonous base (ptomaine) formed in meat broth through the agency of a peculiar microbe from the wound of a person who has died of tetanus; -- so called because it produces tetanus as one of its prominent effects.
Instrumentation :: Instrumentation (n.) The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency.
Proxy :: Proxy (v. i.) To act or vote by proxy; to do anything by the agency of another.
Attorneyship :: Attorneyship (n.) The office or profession of an attorney; agency for another.
Causation :: Causation (n.) The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced.
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