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Encyclopedia > Agencies


Agency may refer to any of the following:

Look up Agency in Wiktionary, the free dictionary
  • agency (business), a company in the service industry.
  • agency (free), availability status of a rostered player on a team or franchise.
  • agency (government), a department of a local or national government responsible for the oversight and administration of a specific function
  • agency (human), capacity of humans to make and impose choices as a collective.
  • agency (law), person who acts for another person.
  • agency (moral), capacity for making moral judgments.
  • agency (sociology), ability of an actor to organize future situations and resource distribution.

Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary logo Wiktionary is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ... External links Business Articles growFolio - Online Business Magazine for Fresh Thinkers Yahoo! Finance Aggregates some really good business articles Categories: | | | ... Free agency can be: In Latter-day Saint theology, free agency is the name of the human capacity to make choices for themselves and to choose between right and wrong. ... An agency is a department of a local or national government responsible for the oversight and administration of a specific function, such as a customs agency or a space agency. ... Human agency is the capacity for human beings to make choices and to impose those choices on the world. ... Agency is an area of law dealing with a contractual or quasi-contractual relationship between at least two parties in which one, the principal, authorizes the other, the agent, to represent her or his legal interests and to perform legal acts that sometimes bind the principal. ... Moral agency is a term used to denote somebody that has a capacity for making moral judgments and for taking actions that comport with morality. ... Theories of structure and agency attempt to answer the question of action: How is it that I can do what I want with others when their goals are different, and often incompatible with mine? Early theories relied on a conception of free will. ...

People, Places, or Groups

See also: agent Agency is a city in Wapello County, Iowa, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 622. ... Agency is a village located in Buchanan County, Missouri. ... Agency is a census-designated place located in Hill County, Montana. ... An agent is an autonomous entity with an ontological commitment and agenda of its own. ...



 
 

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