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agency
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin agentia, from Latin ag?ns (present participle of agere (“to act”)), agentis (cognate with French agence, see also agent).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?.d??n.si/
Noun
agency (countable and uncountable, plural agencies)
- The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.
- Synonyms: action, activity, operation
- 1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies, especially Minerals, &c
- A few advances there are in the following papers tending to assert the superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world.
- (sociology, philosophy, psychology) The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.
- Coordinate terms: free will, structure
- 2001, Todd McGowan, The Feminine "No!", SUNY Press (?ISBN), page 105:
- 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.
- 2012, Edmund V. Sullivan, A Critical Psychology, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 75:
- 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.
- 2013, Andy Clark, Julian Kiverstein, Tillmann Vierkant, Decomposing the Will, Oxford University Press (?ISBN), page 112:
- The feeling of being in control of one's body should involve the sense of body-ownership, plus an additional sense of agency.
- A medium through which power is exerted or an end is achieved.
- Synonyms: instrumentality, means
- The office or function of an agent; also, the relationship between a principal and that person's agent.
- An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency.
- Synonym: management
- Hyponyms: advertising agency, dating agency, employment agency, escort agency, introduction agency, modelling agency, news agency, press agency, relief agency, syndication agency, travel agency
- 2012, Simon Toms, The Impact of the UK Temporary Employment Industry in Assisting Agency Workers since the Year 2000, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (?ISBN), 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.
- A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the district administered by such unit of government.
- Hyponyms: antitrust agency, intelligence agency, space agency
Related terms
- act
- action
- agent
Translations
Further reading
- agency in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- agency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- agency (sociology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- agency (philosophy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- law of agency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- moral agency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- structure and agency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Cagney, gynæc-
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avenue
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveni?, adven?re (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + veni?, ven?re (“come”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?æv.??nju?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?æv.??n(j)u/
- Hyphenation: av?e?nue
Noun
avenue (plural avenues)
- A broad street, especially one bordered by trees.
- A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit.
- The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
- A method or means by which something may be accomplished.
- (urban toponymy) A street, especially, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is in a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.
Usage notes
Sometimes used interchangeably with other terms such as street. When distinguished, an avenue is generally broad and tree-lined. Further, in many American cities laid out on a grid, notably Manhattan, streets run east-west, while avenues run north-south.
When abbreviated in an address (such as "Malcolm Ave" or "Fisher Av.") a capital "A" is normally used and a full stop (period) only used if "e" is not the last letter of the abbreviation.
In French traditionally used for routes between two places within a city, named for the destination (or formally where it is coming from), as in the archetypal Avenue des Champs-Élysées. This distinction is not observed in US English, where names such as “Fifth Avenue” are common. In British English, 'Avenue' is usually more associated with a tree-lined street and is sometimes named after the species of tree e.g. Acacia Avenue.
Synonyms
- (broad street): drive, boulevard
- (broad street): av., av, ave., ave (abbreviation)
Translations
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveni?, adven?re (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + veni?, ven?re (“come”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /av?ny/, [æv??ny]
Noun
avenue c (singular definite avenuen, plural indefinite avenuer)
- avenue
Inflection
References
- “avenue” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveni?, adven?re (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + veni?, ven?re (“come”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /av.ny/
Noun
avenue f (plural avenues)
- avenue (broad street, especially bordered with trees)
- (specifically) a radial avenue (an avenue radiating from a central point, especially bordered with trees)
- (dated) avenue (principal walk or approach to a house or other building)
- (figuratively) avenue (means by which something may be accomplished)
Derived terms
- (abbreviation): av., av, ave., ave
Adjective
avenue
- feminine singular of avenu
Further reading
- “avenue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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