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- pronunciation:
- eI
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- features:
- Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| inflections: |
agencies |
| definition 1: |
An agency is a company or group that helps people do things, especially things that can be difficult to do just by themselves. Agencies do things like help people find a job or help people find an apartment or buy a house. Some agencies help companies find employees to work for them. Some agencies do a special kind of work that customers don't have the skill to do themselves.
The real estate agency helped the young couple find a house to buy.The advertising agency created a new type of ad for the candy company.The detective agency found the stolen paintings.- synonyms:
- business, company, firm, institution, organization
- similar words:
- concern, house
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| definition 2: |
An agency is a department of a government. An agency works on special projects, provides various types of services to the government, or makes sure laws and rules are obeyed.
The national space agency is in charge of the country's exploration into outer space.- synonyms:
- department
- similar words:
- institution, organization
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| related words: |
department, force, medium, tool |
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, 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, admittance, agency, arrogance, attendance, audience, buoyancy, conference, confidence, consequence, consistency, currency, deficiency, difference, disappearance, disturbance, emergency, frequency, importance, independence, occurrence, preference, presidency, residence, science, tendency
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