Agency

Etymology
From, from (present participle of ),  (cognate with 🇨🇬, see also ).

Noun

 * 1) The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.
 * A few advances there are in the following papers tending to assert the superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world.
 * 1)  The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.
 * 2) * 2001, Todd McGowan, The Feminine "No!", SUNY Press (ISBN 9780791448748), page :
 * Formally, capitalism performs its fundamental gesture—reappropriation without transformation. This bears on the question of subjective agency because this “reappropriation without transformation” is exactly what agency seeks to avoid; such a process indicates, in fact, that one's agency has failed, that one really had no agency in the first place.
 * 1) * 2012, Edmund V. Sullivan, A Critical Psychology, Springer Science & Business Media (ISBN 9781461326731), page :
 * Strictly speaking, at the level of personal agency one could say that power is a condition where one is “enabled.” I would contend that this is a condition of personal agency.
 * 1) * 2013, Andy Clark, Julian Kiverstein, Tillmann Vierkant, Decomposing the Will, Oxford University Press (ISBN 9780199876877), page :
 * The feeling of being in control of one's body should involve the sense of body-ownership, plus an additional sense of agency.
 * 1) A medium through which power is exerted or an end is achieved.
 * 2) The office or function of an agent; also, the relationship between a principal and that person's agent.
 * 3) An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency.
 * 4) * 2012, Simon Toms, The Impact of the UK Temporary Employment Industry in Assisting Agency Workers since the Year 2000, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (ISBN 9781443838146), page 277:
 * As an employment agency you have a responsibility to supply work to the individual agency worker, as well as a service to the client.
 * 1) A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the district administered by such unit of government.
 * 1) The office or function of an agent; also, the relationship between a principal and that person's agent.
 * 2) An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency.
 * 3) * 2012, Simon Toms, The Impact of the UK Temporary Employment Industry in Assisting Agency Workers since the Year 2000, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (ISBN 9781443838146), page 277:
 * As an employment agency you have a responsibility to supply work to the individual agency worker, as well as a service to the client.
 * 1) A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the district administered by such unit of government.
 * 1) * 2012, Simon Toms, The Impact of the UK Temporary Employment Industry in Assisting Agency Workers since the Year 2000, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (ISBN 9781443838146), page 277:
 * As an employment agency you have a responsibility to supply work to the individual agency worker, as well as a service to the client.
 * 1) A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the district administered by such unit of government.
 * 1) A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the district administered by such unit of government.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: ageneremo
 * Finnish:
 * French: capacité d'agir
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მოქმედება, ნება
 * German:


 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingue: agentie
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 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: посредство
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: kabisaan


 * French:
 * German:, Handlungsfähigkeit


 * Spanish:


 * Arabic: وِكَالَة
 * Bulgarian: ,
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 * Danish: agentbureau
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: agentejo
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სააგენტო
 * German:
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 * Interlingue: agentura, agentia
 * Irish: gníomhaireacht
 * Occitan:
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 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: kagawaan
 * Turkish:


 * Arabic: وَكَالَة
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: agentejo
 * Finnish:, , välitystoimisto
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სააგენტო
 * German:
 * Hebrew: סוכנות
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: gníomhaireacht
 * Italian:
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 * Korean:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: byrå
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 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: агенција
 * Roman:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Tagalog: ahensya, kagawaan
 * Vietnamese:


 * Arabic:
 * Danish: myndighedskontor
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სააგენტო
 * German:
 * Hindi:
 * Indonesian:


 * Latin: ministerium
 * Mòcheno: omt
 * Occitan:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: kagawaan