agency
noun
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Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 18 Apr. 2024
Writing in a report with Holmes, Bernick recommended a number of steps the EDD could take to shore up the state’s unemployment benefits program, including tightening eligibility standards and modernizing the agency’s computer and communications systems.
—Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2024
The Fish and Wildlife Service waited almost year to announce the births amid ongoing scientific work, other black-footed ferret breeding efforts and the agency's other priorities, Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman Joe Szuszwalak said by email.
—TIME, 18 Apr. 2024
But many residents are unconvinced that change will come without more dramatic intervention from state or federal agencies.
—Silvia Foster-Frau, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2024
Local agencies, like the county fire department, and local companies, like Hawaiian Electric, have been under scrutiny for their involvement in fire preparation, wildfire mitigation and the response to the wildfires.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2024
Universities and other public agencies with government contracts were excluded from the analysis.
—Irene Casado Sanchez, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
The agency recently received about $2.1 million in grants from Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services to make a Youth Crisis Stabilization Center and to increase its outreach for homeless people in the county.
—Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2024
Based in London, McGuire will report into CAA sports media co-heads Matthew Kramer and Tom Young, and will help guide and grow the agency’s representation of sports broadcasters and on-air talent overseas.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 17 Apr. 2024
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agency
noun
Legal Definition
agency
nounW. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr.Note: A principal is bound by and liable for acts of his or her agent that are within the scope of the agency.
Note: A principal has a duty to correct a third party's mistaken belief in an agent's authority to act on the principal's behalf. If the principal could have corrected the misunderstanding but failed to do so, he or she is estopped from denying the existence of the agency and is bound by the agent's acts in dealing with the third party.
R. C. ClarkNote: Many businesses that use the term agency are not truly agencies as defined in sense 2.
called also administrative agency
see also enabling statute, exhaustion of remedies, Administrative Procedure ActNote: When a legislature determines that government involvement is needed in a particular social activity or problem, it may write legislation creating an agency either directly or by authorizing the executive to set it up. Agencies exist at the federal, state, and local levels. Most federal agencies are attached to the executive branch of government. Some agencies (such as the Environmental Protection Agency) are called an agency. An agency may, however, be called such other names as board (as the National Labor Relations Board), commission (as the Securities and Exchange Commission), administration (as the Social Security Administration), and service (as the Internal Revenue Service). Agencies at the federal level are governed by the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, which is found at title 5 of the U.S. Code.
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