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 The launch also comes as global agencies expand on the continent. — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026 The agencies did not immediately identify the exporters involved nor indicate whether any individuals or companies had been charged in the ongoing investigation. — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 The office said the delay was the result of insufficient funding and challenges with coordinating between the many agencies responsible for the county’s restraining order system. — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026 Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office and Shasta County Sheriff's Office launched a joint search and rescue operation on Saturday with help from volunteers and California Highway Patrol Air Operations, according to the agencies. — ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026 The agencies said the previous procedures were not designed for these offenses and that the new framework would allow officials to impose more penalties more quickly. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026 The Fed has long blamed a range of factors for the cost overruns, including a spike in inflation, unexpected expenses such as asbestos remediation, and additional demands from review agencies. — Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2026 The measure works largely by imposing deadlines on state agencies and courts to issue decisions on those projects, proponents say. — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 2026 The president is requiring the rebrand for government agencies and is encouraging the private sector to do the same. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 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 allegations come after the California Department of Human Resources sent a notice in February 2022 outlining that departments cannot approve employee requests to regularly work from out-of-state locations.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Major athletics departments instead spend toward sameness, waging arms races to build lookalike weight rooms.
    — Chris Park, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of departments
Noun
  • There is currently no payments network for AI agents, Hayes said.
    — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Which is to say the agents are hustling — and even trying to submit to literary magazines — to stay alive.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 7 Oct. 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
  • Certifying a council as fair means comparing it against every possible group of voters and every slate of candidates that group can claim.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Then, the court could determine whether the person has the means to pay, Looney said.
    — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of means
Noun
  • Crews went floor to floor, hitting individual cubicles, offices and even coordinating with a restaurant also housed in the building.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Kyiv is split in half by the Dnipro River, with the right bank home to the majority of the city’s business centers, offices and government institutions.
    — Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of offices
Noun
  • The automaker operates production facilities in Changchun, Chengdu, Foshan, Qingdao, and Tianjin, producing vehicles under the Volkswagen, Audi, and Jetta brands.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Surveillance video shows three vehicles circling the parking lot before a white Toyota Tacoma barrels through the storefront, shattering glass and sending employees running.
    — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of vehicles
Noun
  • States have already started slashing caregivers’ pay and other critical disability services in anticipation of Medicaid cuts that will roll out next year.
    — STAT, STAT, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Rent now, pay later services are one form, which break rent into multiple payments.
    — Adriana Morga, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of services
Noun
  • Precise attitude control keeps those instruments pointed at their targets as the satellites race around Earth.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The score, composed by Damon Albarn, has a rough, analog feel to it, incorporating instruments like an Indonesian angklung.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of instruments

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“Agencies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agencies. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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