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- Word Combinations (noun), Word Explorer, Word Parts
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noun |
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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 |
adjective + (n.)agency
accrediting,
administrative,
advanced,
atomic,
central,
civilian,
creative,
environmental,
federal,
foster,
free,
governmental,
humanitarian,
independent,
international,
judicial,
local,
multilateral,
municipal,
nongovernmental,
nonprofit,
official,
outside,
private,
regional,
regulatory,
specialized,
temporary,
various,
voluntary
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verb + (n.)agency
accredit, coordinate, state
(n.)agency
+ verb
administer, charge, cooperate, enforce, fund, issue, monitor, oversee, regulate, specialize
noun + (n.)agency
accreditation,
adoption,
advertising,
aid,
cooperation,
coordination,
credit,
defense,
donor,
emergency,
employment,
energy,
enforcement,
funding,
government,
housing,
intelligence,
law,
management,
modeling,
oversight,
planning,
protection,
rating,
redevelopment,
referral,
refugee,
rehabilitation,
relief,
rental,
reporting,
service,
space,
spy,
state,
temp,
transit,
travel,
watchdog,
welfare,
wildlife
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The word agency
contains the following parts:
act, ag
Latin
root
that means do, drive
  Example words:
action, activate, active, actively, activist, activity, actor, actress, actual, agency, agenda, agent, agile, agitate, enact, hyperactive, interact, interaction, interactive, radioactive, react, reaction, reactor, reagent, retroactive, transact, transaction
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence
and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, accountancy, admittance, agency, ambiance, ambience, appetency, arrogance, ascendancy, attendance, audience, belligerency, benevolence, brilliancy, buoyancy, cadence, clemency, complacency, conference, confidence, consequence, conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, countertendency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, difference, disappearance, discrepancy, disturbance, efficiency, eloquence, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, importance, incoherency, inconsistency, incumbency, indecency, independence, independency, inefficiency, infancy, insufficiency, insurgency, interagency, interdependency, itinerancy, latency, leniency, malfeasance, malignancy, mendicancy, nonbelligerency, nonemergency, occupancy, occurrence, patency, permanency, piquancy, poignancy, potency, preference, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, pungency, redundancy, regency, remembrance, residence, residency, science, solvency, stringency, subagency, sufficiency, superefficiency, superintendency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy
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