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Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.
Aldrich Ames

Meaning of "agencies" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AGENCIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AGENCIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Agencies is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AGENCIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Agency

Agency may refer to: ▪ Agency ▪ Agency, a 1980 film starring Lee Majors ▪ Agency, refers to a person who acts on behalf of another person ▪ Agency, relating to action theory ▪ Agency, the ability of social actors to make independent choices ▪ Agency ▪ Agency, Iowa, USA ▪ Agency, Missouri, USA ▪ Agency, Montana, USA...

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AGENCIES

agency
agency agreement
agency fee
agency nurse
agency spokesperson
agenda
agendaless
agendum
agendums
agene
agenesia
agenesis
agenetic
agenize
agent
agent of production
Agent Orange
agent provocateur
agent-general

WORDS THAT END LIKE AGENCIES

competencies
constituencies
contingencies
currencies
deficiencies
dependencies
discrepancies
efficiencies
emergencies
fancies
frequencies
inconsistencies
malignancies
occupancies
policies
pregnancies
regencies
residencies
tendencies
transparencies
vacancies

Synonyms and antonyms of agencies in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «AGENCIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «agencies» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of agencies

Translation of «agencies» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AGENCIES

Find out the translation of agencies to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of agencies from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «agencies» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

机构
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

agencias
570 millions of speakers

English

agencies
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एजेंसियों
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

وكالات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

агентства
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

agências
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সংস্থা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

agences
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Agensi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Agenturen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

代理店
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

기관
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Agensi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cơ quan
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முகவர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संस्था
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ajanslar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

agenzie
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Oddziały
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

агентства
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

agenții
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπηρεσίες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

agentskappe
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

organ
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

byråer
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of agencies

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AGENCIES»

The term «agencies» is very widely used and occupies the 5.153 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of agencies
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «agencies».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AGENCIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «agencies» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «agencies» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about agencies

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10 QUOTES WITH «AGENCIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word agencies.
1
Grace Abbott
The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.
2
Aldrich Ames
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.
3
Michael Badnarik
I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.
4
Richard Ben-Veniste
Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the terrible trauma of Watergate - the lies, distortions, cover-ups, misuses of federal agencies to exact political revenge, illegal wiretapping, burglaries.
5
Dennis C. Blair
Before 9/11 there were weak procedures, willingness, and mechanisms for communicating among agencies for foreign intelligence and the FBI with its focus on law enforcement. The domestic-vs.-foreign barrier has been solved by the reforms after 9/11 that established the DNI.
6
James Bovard
The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power.
7
Breyten Breytenbach
Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.
8
Tina Brown
Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies.
9
Stephen Cambone
The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with doing either. That is an important point to make. Those functions are performed by the CIA, DIA and other agencies.
10
Rene Cassin
The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AGENCIES»

Discover the use of agencies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to agencies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Rating Agencies and Their Credit Ratings: What They Are, ...
This book is a guide to ratings, the ratings industry and the mechanics and economics of obtaining a rating. It sheds light on the role that the agencies play in the international financial markets.
Herwig Langohr, Patricia Langohr, 2010
2
Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and why They Do it
Examines the Army, the Foreign Service, and the Social Security Administration, explains how ogranizational cultures are created to meet each agency's needs, and suggests possible improvements
James Q. Wilson, 2000
3
News Agencies from Pigeon to Internet
This book is an attempt to fill this void in the global literature on journalism, media studies, international communication and business management studies.
K. M. Shrivastava, 2007
4
Getting Agencies to Work Together: The Practice and Theory ...
"Makes a convincing case that, in government, successful collaboration is an innovation that both builds capacity and contributes to the public good." - cover.
Eugene Bardach, 1998
5
Impact Assessment for Development Agencies: Learning to ...
This book considers the process of impact assessment and shows how and why it needs to be integrated into all stages of development programmes. In-depth case studies are included and show a variety of approaches.
Chris J. R. Roche, 1999
6
Ratings, Rating Agencies and the Global Financial System
The final section of the volume emphasizes policy issues now facing regulators and credit rating agencies.
Richard M. Levich, Giovanni Majnoni, Carmen Reinhart, 2002
7
Balanced Scorecard: Step-by-Step for Government and ...
This book provides an easy-to-follow roadmap for successfully implementing the Balanced Scorecard methodology in small- and medium-sized companies.
Paul R. Niven, 2011
8
Credit Rating Agencies on the Watch List: Analysis of ...
This is complemented with an analysis of guidance from supervisors (ESMA and EBA), IOSCO's recommendations, and US legislation.
Raquel García Alcubilla, Javier Ruiz del Pozo, 2012
9
Autonomy and Regulation: Coping with Agencies in the Modern ...
This book focuses on regulatory reforms and the autonomization and agencification of public sector organizations across Europe, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid, 2006
10
Effective Financial Management in Public and Nonprofit Agencies
"This volume is imperative reading for managers of any kind, as well as administrators, scholars, teachers, and students of financial management of public and not-for-profit organizations, including the health care industry, public affairs, ...
Jerome B. McKinney, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AGENCIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term agencies is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Analysis: Credit rating agencies combing through state budget
The answer from the rating agencies is of particular interest to Jindal, who's running for the Republican presidential nomination and is touting ... «Monroe News Star, Jul 15»
2
Agencies field fewer holiday calls
That's quiet in the sense that most agencies had significantly fewer calls than in past years. But the night was anything but quiet when it came to ... «Stockton Record, Jul 15»
3
US Agencies Conduct Cyberwar Games
WASHINGTON—The Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security, National Security Agency and a host of other agencies joined British ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
4
Paying more for less water: California water agencies lose money in …
Agencies are expected to lose $1 billion in revenue under Gov. Jerry Brown's mandatory conservation order for communities to save water ... «Fox News, Jul 15»
5
Multiple agencies patrollng the water
VIDEO: Multiple law enforcement was on alert this weekend for the 4th of July especially in Palm Valley during the Palooza event. «WJXT Jacksonville, Jul 15»
6
Local agencies discuss impact of state budget crisis
It's third day into the state's fiscal new year; Illinois still doesn't have a budget. Members and guests of the Macomb Area Chamber of ... «McDonough Voice, Jul 15»
7
Ad agencies take up reading minds
LONDON -- Facebook this spring commissioned a San Francisco company called SalesBrain to gauge how consumers responded to ads ... «NWAOnline, Jul 15»
8
Vivaki, Cadeon: How Ad Agencies Are Rebooting Their …
CANNES — For businesses that have often preached the dangers of operating in “silos”, it's ironic how siloed ad agencies' programmatic ad ... «Beet.TV, Jul 15»
9
Vyapam scam: Congress calls for investigation by agencies
New Delhi: The Congress party on Monday called for the investigation into the Vyapam scam to be carried out by agencies reporting to ... «Zee News, Jul 15»
10
Desilting work still incomplete, Delhi civic agencies buckle up
NEW DELHI: Civic agencies can consider themselves lucky that it has barely rained in Delhi since monsoon was declared on June 25 as ... «Times of India, Jul 15»

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