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| Main Entry: | agency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organization, often business-related |
| Synonyms: | bureau, company, department, firm, office |
| Main Entry: | agency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, instrumentality |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, auspices, channel, efficiency, force, influence, instrument, instrumentality, intercession, intervention, means, mechanism, mediation, medium, operation, organ, vehicle, work |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | agency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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-nouns
agency, operation, force, working, strain, function, office, maintenance, exercise, work, swing, play; interworking, interaction; procurement., causation [more]; instrumentality [more]; influence [more]; action (voluntary) [more]; modus operandi [more]., quickening power, maintaining power, sustaining power; home stroke.
-verbs
be in action; operate, work; act, act upon; perform, play, support, sustain, strain, maintain, take effect, quicken, strike., come play, come bring into operation; have play, have free play; bring to bear upon.
-adjectives
operative, efficient, efficacious, practical, effectual., at work, on foot; acting (doing) [more]; in operation, in force, in action, in play, in exercise; acted upon, wrought upon.
-phrases
"I myself must mix with action lest I wither by despair" [Tennyson].
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| Main Entry: | factor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | determinant |
| Synonyms: | agency, agent, aid, antecedent, aspect, board, cause, circumstance, component, consideration, constituent, element, fixin's, influence, ingredient, instrument, instrumentality, item, makin's, means, part, part and parcel, point, portion, thing |
| Main Entry: | influence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, authority |
| Synonyms: | access, agency, ascendancy, character, clout, command, consequence, control, credit, direction, domination, dominion, drag, effect, esteem, fame, fix, force, grease*, guidance, hold, impact, importance, imprint, juice*, leadership, leverage, magnetism, mark, moment, money, monopoly, network, notoriety, predominance, prerogative, pressure, prestige, prominence, pull, repercussion, reputation, rule, significance, spell, supremacy, sway, weight*, connections, in, ropes |
| Antonyms: | impotence, incapacity, inferiority, weakness, powerlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | machinery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devices performing work |
| Synonyms: | agency, agent, apparatus, appliance, channel, contraption, contrivance, engine, equipment, gadget, gear, implement, instrument, materiel, means, mechanism, medium, method, motor, organ, outfit, paraphernalia, structure, system, tackle, tool, utensil, vehicle, works, accouterment, habiliments, shifts |
| Main Entry: | organ |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | means, tool |
| Synonyms: | agency, agent, channel, device, element, forum, implement, instrument, journal, magazine, medium, member, ministry, mouthpiece, newspaper, paper, part, periodical, process, publication, review, structure, unit, vehicle, voice, way |
| Main Entry: | instrumentality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contribution |
| Synonyms: | agency, aid, assistance, help, means |
| Main Entry: | administration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management of an organization or effort |
| Synonyms: | agency, application, authority, charge, command, conduct, control, direction, dispensation, disposition, distribution, enforcement, execution, governing, government, guidance, handling, jurisdiction, legislation, order, organization, oversight, performance, policy, power, provision, regulation, rule, running, strategy, supervision, surveillance, administering, conducting, directing, overseeing, superintendence |
| Main Entry: | bureau |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | branch of an organization |
| Synonyms: | agency, authority, board, commission, committee, department, division, front office*, office, service, setup, shop, store, salt mines |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cause |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agent, originator |
| Synonyms: | account, agency, aim, antecedent, author, basis, beginning, consideration, creator, doer, element, end, explanation, foundation, genesis, ground, grounds, incitement, inducement, instigation, leaven, maker, matter, motivation, motive, object, occasion, origin, prime mover, principle, purpose, root, source, spring, stimulation, causation, determinant, mainspring, producer |
| Antonyms: | consequence, development, effect, end, fruit, issue, outcome, outgrowth, product, result |
| Main Entry: | commission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | task, duty |
| Synonyms: | agency, appointment, authority, certificate, charge, consignment, delegation, deputation, diploma, embassy, employment, errand, function, instruction, mandate, mission, obligation, office, permit, proxy, trust, warrant, work, brevet, legation, power of attorney |
| Main Entry: | department |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | section of organization, area |
| Synonyms: | administration, agency, area, arena, beat, board, branch, bureau, canton, circuit, commission, commune, constituency, division, force, office, parish, precinct, quarter, range, staff, station, subdivision, territory, tract, unit, ward |
| Main Entry: | means |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | way, method |
| Synonyms: | agency, agent, aid, apparatus, auspices, avenue, channel, course, dodge*, equipment, expedient, factor, fashion, gimmick*, instrument, instrumentality, intermediary, machinery, manner, measure, mechanism, medium, ministry, mode, modus operandi, organ, organization, paraphernalia, path, power, process, road, route, step, system, tactic, technique, trick, vehicle, ways and means*, instrumentation, stepping-stone |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | medium |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | means, mode |
| Synonyms: | agency, agent, avenue, channel, clairvoyant, factor, form, instrument, instrumentality, intermediate, measure, mechanism, ministry, organ, psychic, seer, tool, vehicle, way |
| Main Entry: | operation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movement, working |
| Synonyms: | act, action, activity, affair, agency, application, bit, conveyance, course, deal, deed, doing, effect, effort, employment, engagement, enterprise, exercise, exertion, exploitation, force, handiwork, happening, influence, instrumentality, labor, manipulation, motion, movement, performance, play, procedure, proceeding, process, progress, progression, scene, service, transaction, trip, undertaking, use, work, workmanship, ballgame, carrying on, exercising, transference |
| Antonyms: | idleness, inaction, inutility, uselessness |
| Main Entry: | support |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that holds up structure |
| Synonyms: | abutment, agency, back, backing, base, bed, bedding, block, brace, buttress, collar, column, cornerstone, device, foothold, footing, foundation, groundwork, guide, hold, lining, means, medium, pillar, platform, pole, post, prop, rampart, reinforcement, rest, rib, rod, shore, stake, stanchion, stay, timber, underpinning, flotation, fulcrum, stave, stiffener, stilt, substratum, substructure, sustentation |
| Main Entry: | channel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | means |
| Synonyms: | agency, agent, approach, avenue, course, instrument, instrumentality, medium, ministry, organ, route, vehicle, way, instrumentation |
| Main Entry: | forum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | setting |
| Synonyms: | agency, apparatus, avenue, backdrop, channel, framework, means, mechanism, medium, meeting place, place, scene, stage, vehicle, venue |
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