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English

Etymology

From , from , (cognate with French , see also ).

Pronunciation

IPA: WEAE /ˈeː.ʤən.si/

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Noun

  1. The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.
  2. : The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. --Woodward.
  3. The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one entrusted with the concerns of another.
  4. The place of business of an agent.


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English agency \a"gen*cy\ ([=a]"jen*s[y^]), n.; pl. Agencies
([=a]"jen*s[i^]z). [agentia, fr. L. agens, agentis: cf. F.
agence. See Agent.]
1. The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of
being in action; action; instrumentality.
[1913 Webster]

The superintendence and agency of Providence in the
natural world. --Woodward.
[1913 Webster]

2. The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a
principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with
the concerns of another.
[1913 Webster]

3. The place of business of an agent.
[1913 Webster]

4. An organization or business that provides some service,
primarily for other organizations; as, an advertising
agency.
[PJC]

5. An administrative division of a government; as, a state
welfare agency; a motor vehicle agency; the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA); the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA).
[PJC]

Syn: Action; operation; efficiency; management.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet agency
n 1: an administrative unit of government; "the Central
Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of
Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority"
[syn: federal agency, government agency, bureau, office,
authority]
2: a business that serves other businesses
3: the state of being in action or exerting power; "the agency
of providence"; "she has free agency"
4: the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate
or agent [syn: representation, delegacy]
5: how a result is obtained or an end is achieved; "a means of
control"; "an example is the best agency of instruction";
"the true way to success" [syn: means, way]
Moby Dictionary
action , activity , agent , agentship , antecedent , assignment ,
atelier , authority , authorization , barbershop , barter , bartering ,
beauty parlor , beauty shop , bench , brevet , brokerage , butcher shop ,
buying and selling , care , cause , change , channel , charge ,
commission , commissioning , commitment , commutation , company ,
concern , conduct , consignment , corporation , cure , dealing ,
delegated authority , delegation , deputation , deputyship , desk ,
determinant , device , devolution , devolvement , direction ,
displacement , doing business , driving , embassy , empowerment ,
energy , entrusting , entrustment , errand , establishment , exchange ,
execution , executorship , exequatur , exercise , expedient , facility ,
factorship , firm , force , full power , functioning , gear ,
give-and-take , going between , handling , horse trading , house ,
installation , institution , instrumentality , instrumentation ,
intercession , interchange , intermediation , intervention , jobbing ,
jurisdiction , legation , license , lieutenancy , loft , machinery ,
management , mandate , manipulation , means , mechanism , mediation ,
medium , merchandising , ministry , mission , occupation , office ,
operancy , operation , organ , organization , parlor , performance ,
performing , plenipotentiary power , power , power of attorney ,
power to act , practice , procuration , proxy , purview , quid pro quo ,
recourse , regency , regentship , replacement , representation , resort ,
responsibility , retailing , running , service , shop , steering ,
studio , subrogation , substitution , supersedence , superseding ,
supersedure , supersession , supplantation , supplanting ,
supplantment , swapping , sweatshop , switch , task , tit for tat ,
trade , trading , trafficking , trust , trusteeship , vehicle ,
vicarious authority , vicariousness , warrant , wheeling and dealing ,
wholesaling , work , work site , work space , workbench , workhouse ,
working , working space , workings , workplace , workroom , workshop ,
worktable


AGENCY, contracts. An agreement, express, or implied, by which one of the parties, called the principal, confides to the other, denominated the agent, the management of some business; to be transacted in his name, or on his account, and by which the agent assumes to do the business and to render an account of it. As a general rule, whatever a man do by himself, except in virtue of a delegated authority, he may do by an agent. Combee's Case, 9 Co. 75. Hence the maxim qui facit per alium facit per se. 2. When the agency express, it is created either by deed, or in writing not by deed, or verbally without writing. 3 Chit. Com. Law 104; 9 Ves. 250; 11 Mass. Rep. 27; Ib. 97, 288; 1 Binn. R. 450. When the agency is not express, it may be inferred from the relation of the parties and the nature of the employment, without any proof of any express appointment. 1 Wash. R. 19; 16 East, R. 400; 5 Day's R. 556. 3. The agency must be antecedently given, or subsequently adopted; and in the latter case there must be an act of recognition, or an acquiescence in the act of the agent, from which a recognition may be fairly implied. 9 Cranch, 153, 161; 26 Wend. 193, 226; 6 Man. & Gr. 236, 242; 1 Hare & Wall. Sel. Dec. 420; 2 Kent, Com. 478; Paley on Agency; Livermore on Agency. 4. An agency may be dissolved in two ways - 1, by the act of the principal or the agent; 2, by operation of law. 5.-1. The agency may be dissolved by the act of one of the parties. 1st. As a general rule, it may be laid down that the principal has a right to revoke the powers which he has given; but this is subject to some exception, of which the following are examples. When the principal has expressly stipulated that the authority shall be irrevocable, and the agent has an interest in its execution; it is to be observed, however, that although there may be an express agreement not to revoke, yet if the agent has no interest in its execution, and there is no consideration for the agreement, it will be considered a nude pact, and the authority may be revoked. But when an authority or power is coupled with an interest, or when it is given for a valuable consideration, or when it is a part of a security, then, unless there is an express stipulation that it shall be revocable, it cannot be revoked, whether it be expressed on the face of the instrument giving the authority, that it be so, or not. Story on Ag. 477; Smith on Merc. L. 71; 2 Liv. on Ag. 308; Paley on Ag. by Lloyd, 184; 3 Chit. Com. f. 223; 2 Mason's R. 244; Id. 342; 8 Wheat. R. 170; 1 Pet. R. 1; 2 Kent, Com. 643, 3d edit.; Story on Bailm. Sec. 209; 2 Esp. R. 665; 3 Barnw. & Cressw. 842; 10 Barnw. & Cressw. 731; 2 Story, Eq. Jur. Sec. 1041, 1042, 1043 6.-2. The agency may be determined by the renunciation of the agent. If the renunciation be made after it has been partly executed, the agent by renouncing it, becomes liable for the damages which may thereby be sustained by his principal. Story on Ag. Sec. 478; Story on Bailm. Sec. 436; Jones on Bailm. 101; 4 John r. 84. 7.-2 The agency is revoked by operation of law in the following cases: 1st. When the agency terminates by the expiration of the period, during which it was to exist, and to have effect; as, if an agency be created to endure a year, or till the happening of a contingency, it becomes extinct at the end or on the happening of the contingency. 8.-2. When a change of condition, or of state, produces an incapacity in either party; as, if the principal, being a woman, marry, this would be a revocation, because the power of creating an agent is founded on the right of the principal to do the business himself, and a married woman has no such power. For the same reason, when the principal becomes insane, the agency is ipso facto revoked. 8 Wheat. R. 174, 201 to 204; Story on Ag. Sec. 481; Story on Bailm. Sec. 206. 2 Liv. on Ag. 307. The incapacity of the agent also amounts to a revocation in law, as in case of insanity, and the like, which renders an agent altogether incompetent, but the rule does not reciprocally apply in its full extent. For instance, an infant or a married woman may in some cases be agents, although they cannot act for themselves. Co. Litt. 52a. 9.-3. The death of either principal or agent revokes the agency, unless in cases where the agent has an interest in the thing actually vested in the agent. 8 Wheat. R. 174; Story on Ag. Sec. 486 to 499; 2 Greenl. R. 14, 18; but see 4 W. & S. 282; 1 Hare & Wall. Sel. Dec. 415. 10.-4. The agency is revoked in law, by the extinction of the subject-matter of the agency, or of the principal's power over it, or by the complete execution of the trust. Story on Bailm. Sec. 207, Vide generally, 1 Hare & Wall. Sel. Dec. 384, 422; Pal. on Ag.; Story on Ag.; Liv. on Ag.; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1269-1382.
Agency, IA (city, FIPS 640) Location: 40.99685 N, 92.30732 W Population (1990): 616 (276 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52530 Agency, MO (town, FIPS 298) Location: 39.65569 N, 94.74854 W Population (1990): 642 (216 housing units) Area: 6.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 64401
Moby Dictionary 324
Housing Units (2000): 90
Land area (2000): 8.577370 sq. miles (22.215286 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.007082 sq. miles (0.018342 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.584452 sq. miles (22.233628 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00587
Located within: Montana (MT) , FIPS 30
Location: 48.257148 N , 109.772875 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Agency , MT
Agency
Moby Dictionary 622
Housing Units (2000): 286
Land area (2000): 0.578829 sq. miles (1.499159 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.578829 sq. miles (1.499159 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00640
Located within: Iowa (IA) , FIPS 19
Location: 40.995432 N , 92.307532 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 52530
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Agency , IA
Agency
Moby Dictionary 599
Housing Units (2000): 222
Land area (2000): 1.936828 sq. miles (5.016361 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.936828 sq. miles (5.016361 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00298
Located within: Missouri (MO) , FIPS 29
Location: 39.648739 N , 94.744418 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 64401
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Agency , MO
Agency
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