Usually means: Capacity to act independently, freely.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. agency: Merriam-Webster
  2. agency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. agency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. agency: Collins English Dictionary
  5. agency: Vocabulary.com
  6. Agency, agency, agency: Wordnik
  7. agency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. agency: Wiktionary
  9. agency: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. agency: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. agency: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. agency: Dictionary.com
  13. agency: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. agency: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Agency (LDS Church), Agency (Mormonism), Agency (country subdivision), Agency (law), Agency (novel), Agency (philosophy), Agency (psychology), Agency (sociology), Agency, The Agency (TV series), The Agency (comics), The Agency (film), .agency: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Agency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. agency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. agency: Rhymezone
  19. agency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. agency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. agency: FreeDictionary.org
  22. agency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. agency: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. agency: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. agency: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. agency: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. agency: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  4. agency: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  5. agency: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  9. AGENCY: Accounting Glossary
  10. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  11. agency: Finance-Glossary.com
  12. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  13. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  14. Agency: Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms
  15. agency: Legal dictionary
  16. Agency (law), agency: Financial dictionary
  17. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  18. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  19. Agency: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. agency: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. agency: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. agency: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.
noun:  (sociology, philosophy, psychology) The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.
noun:  A medium through which power is exerted or an end is achieved.
noun:  The office or function of an agent; also, the relationship between a principal and that person's agent.
noun:  An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency.
noun:  A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the district administered by, such unit of government.

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