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agency - 20 thesaurus results
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
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Main Entry: agency
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
acting, acted upon, at work, effectual, efficacious, efficient, in action, in exercise, in force, in operation, in play, on foot, operative, practical, wrought upon
Concept Thesaurus
Synonyms:
-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.
-adverbs
by the agency of; through (instrumentality) [more]; by means of [more].
-phrases
"I myself must mix with action lest I wither by despair" [Tennyson].
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: 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
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: 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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