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- Word Combinations (noun), Word Explorer, Word Parts
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agencies |
| definition 1: |
an organization, franchise, or business that acts on behalf of others.
There is a large job agency that supplies workers for several companies in the area.The real estate agency helped her find a house.- synonyms:
- business, company, corporation, firm, institution, organization
- similar words:
- bureau, concern, house
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| definition 2: |
an agent's place of business.
There's an insurance agency next to the bank.- synonyms:
- home office, office
- similar words:
- house
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| definition 3: |
a government department that manages special projects, provides specific services to the goverment, or that administers laws and regulations.
The Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1970.NASA is the nation's space agency.- synonyms:
- bureau, department
- similar words:
- institution, organization
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| definition 4: |
a means of exerting power; instrumentality.
Law is an agency of change.- synonyms:
- agent, instrumentality, means, ways and means
- similar words:
- enactment, execution, exercise, instrument
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| related words: |
commission, department, force, medium, office, tool |
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