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# agency

«agency» in Mova's school dictionary: **a business or organisation that provides a service for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an agency, agencies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An agency is a business or organisation that provides a service for other people, like a travel agency. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/agency/#m1)

2) An agency is a part of a government that does special work, like a space agency. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/agency/#m2)

3) Agency can also mean the power to make your own choices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/agency/#m3)

4) Agency can also mean the action or means by which something happens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/agency/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: travel agency, news agency, employment agency. In science and the news: space agencies (like NASA) send rockets and satellites into space; environment agencies look after nature. In stories, a spy works for a secret agency.

### examples

- We booked our holiday through a travel agency. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/agency/#x1)
- The space agency launched a new rover to Mars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/agency/#x2)
- A news agency sends stories to newspapers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/agency/#x3)
- Mum found her new job through an agency. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/agency/#x4)
- In the film, the spy works for a secret agency. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/agency/#x5)
- The weather agency warned of strong winds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/agency/#x6)
- These fables, again, were among the books brought into an extended circulation by the agency of the printing press. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/agency/#x7)

### note

Countable: an agency, two agencies (y changes to ies). A person who works for one is an agent. Spelled with -ency.

### In the corpora

- [In March 2024 photo agencies withdrew a Mother's Day family photo because it had been edited, and the Princess apologised.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/45-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced/16/)
- [Mila gets a letter from her birth mum once a year, passed on through the adoption agency; this is called letterbox contact.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/10/)
- [Letterbox contact means letters between an adopted child's family and the birth family, passed on through an agency.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/43/)
- [Great Britain's national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey, began in 1791 and makes detailed maps at scales of 1:25,000 and 1:50,000.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/1-maps-and-scale/8/)
- [Charities and UN agencies use donations to buy food, medicine, blankets and generators for people in and around Ukraine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/25-ukraine-refugees-aid-sanctions-and-childrens-lives/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «agency» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/agency/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.