agencies

noun

plural of agency
1
as in departments
a large unit of a governmental, business, or educational organization the federal agency charged with enforcing laws and regulations regarding the use of firearms

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2
as in instrumentalities
something used to achieve an end by what agency do you plan to acquire this fortune?

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Recent Examples of agencies Still, many local law enforcement agencies using Flock work with federal immigration authorities, including through federal 287(g) agreements. — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026 Firms in the Program may receive threat information from other private entities and from federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial agencies, and may propose operations to the NCC. — Jill Goldenziel, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026 Unlike in civil court proceedings, DOAH rulings are merely recommendations to state and local government agencies, which do not have to abide by the decisions. — Ana Goñi-Lessan, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2026 At the celebrations, Torres was also spotted wearing a rubber bracelet with a Spain flag that carried branding from the Guardia Civil — one of the country’s two national law enforcement agencies (the other being the Policia Nacional). — Laia Cervelló Herrero, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026 Nearly 1,600 agencies in 32 states now partner with ICE task forces, helping drive immigration arrests from 250 a month in 2024 to about 3,000 per month in early 2026. — Ryan J. Foley, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026 Nobody questions the employees in the agencies, and they are given tremendous immunity. — Sreedhar Potarazu, Baltimore Sun, 19 Aug. 2026 Nearly 1,600 agencies in 32 states now have agreements to participate in ICE’s task force model, in which trained local officers can interrogate, arrest and charge people suspected of being in the country illegally, according to ICE data. — ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for agencies
  1. departments
  2. agents
  3. bureaus
  4. means
  5. offices
  6. vehicles
  7. services
  8. instruments
Noun
  • The departments alleged that the school district violated parental rights protected by FERPA.
    — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • While discussing the city’s overall youth violence prevention strategy Tuesday night, council members Lisa Kaplan and Mai Vang both suggested reassessing oversight of the program to create more cohesion with other departments doing similar work.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of departments
Noun
  • Cheap inference also creates elasticity, since agents that can afford to run continuously consume far more.
    — Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Hennepin County’s top prosecutor calls the interstate clash over Castro’s transfer a needless test of states’ duty to honor extradition — and of whether federal agents can evade accountability.
    — Mark Vancleave, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of agents
Noun
  • For stronger protection, consider a credit freeze with all three major bureaus.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Register fraud alerts with Experian, Equifax and TransUnion, the three main credit reporting bureaus.
    — Brian Sloan,Dan Avery, CNBC, 6 July 2026
Definition of bureaus
Noun
  • Because having a major LLM now adopt automatic watermarking of all its AI outputs has caused masses of people to rush to find a means to defeat the watermarking.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Defense attorney Steve Haney argued that there was no evidence Rinderknecht started the blaze, that the fire could have been started by a firework or other means and that the fire scene was not secured.
    — Sierra van der Brug, Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of means
Noun
  • Roughly 10 miles from downtown in North Austin’s Domain district, this four-acre western-style retro hotel is near tech offices and steps from a wide mix of dining, designer shopping, and Rock Rose, the area’s nightlife hub.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Aug. 2026
  • But state and county offices, courts and judiciary facilities and most public schools in Oahu, Maui and Kauai counties will reopen.
    — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of offices
Noun
  • Foundations are required to distribute at least 5 percent of their assets annually, a rule created precisely to prevent charitable vehicles from becoming indefinite tax shelters.
    — Nick Allardice, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Some shops with specific scan tools that have special programming functions can permanently shut off the start/stop system on certain vehicles.
    — John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs And Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of vehicles
Noun
  • Last year, the services abandoned recruiting efforts at aprestigious Black engineering event in Baltimore, where recruiters had historically sought candidates with high-demand technical skills.
    — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • In addition to the roughly 7 million barrels per day that Middle Eastern countries have rerouted around the strait through pipelines and other methods, about 11 or 12 million barrels have been flowing out, according to the tracking services.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of services
Noun
  • Webb’s NIRCam and MIRI instruments produced dramatically different views of the object, showing how different infrared wavelengths can reveal different components of the same stellar death scene.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Scrub technologists and circulating nurses prepare and manage instruments, maintain sterility, position the patient with millimeter precision for complex spine or cranial approaches, and anticipate needs before they are spoken.
    — Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of instruments

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“Agencies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agencies. Accessed 21 Aug. 2026.

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