agency
noun
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Examples of agency in a Sentence
Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
Kate took credit for editing the image and apologized after multiple photo agencies pulled it, noting it had been manipulated.
—Mallory Moench, TIME, 6 Apr. 2024
Glas has since been transferred to the Guayas No. 3 Deprivation of Liberation Center, a maximum-security prison in Guayaquil known as La Roca, the national prisons agency SNAI announced Saturday.
—Fidel Gutiérrez, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
Detectives with the Sheriff’s Department were called Friday evening to assist the investigation, but that agency was not involved in the incident, Fantom said.
—Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
Starr said agencies use informants to catch a big fish.
—Beth Warren, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024
The showcase provides an opportunity for the graduating cohort to premiere their short films to an audience of agency and studio representatives, as well as other artists from the creative community.
—Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
Aid agencies had begged the Israeli authorities for months to open a direct line between them and Israeli military forces to avoid disastrous misfires, Jamie McGoldrick, a senior U.N. relief official, said.
—Adam Rasgon, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
Across the country, conservative legislators have begun to target diversity programs in state agencies, schools and private companies.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2024
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agency
noun
Legal Definition
agency
nounW. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr.Note: A principal is bound by and liable for acts of his or her agent that are within the scope of the agency.
Note: A principal has a duty to correct a third party's mistaken belief in an agent's authority to act on the principal's behalf. If the principal could have corrected the misunderstanding but failed to do so, he or she is estopped from denying the existence of the agency and is bound by the agent's acts in dealing with the third party.
R. C. ClarkNote: Many businesses that use the term agency are not truly agencies as defined in sense 2.
called also administrative agency
see also enabling statute, exhaustion of remedies, Administrative Procedure ActNote: When a legislature determines that government involvement is needed in a particular social activity or problem, it may write legislation creating an agency either directly or by authorizing the executive to set it up. Agencies exist at the federal, state, and local levels. Most federal agencies are attached to the executive branch of government. Some agencies (such as the Environmental Protection Agency) are called an agency. An agency may, however, be called such other names as board (as the National Labor Relations Board), commission (as the Securities and Exchange Commission), administration (as the Social Security Administration), and service (as the Internal Revenue Service). Agencies at the federal level are governed by the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, which is found at title 5 of the U.S. Code.
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