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Plural of agency

regular plural

The plural of agency is agencies.

Forms of agency

Singularagency /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒən.si/
Pluralagencies /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒən.siz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Agencies in a sentence

  • Recycled sewer water is opposed by many sanitation agencies due to the yuck factor.From the entry yuck factor
  • After spending two decades at various government agencies, he returned to the private sector and took a job as a business consultant.From the entry private sector
  • That's what we hear from other transit agencies working in the South for example, with extreme heat.2026 May 6, “How the MBTA Handles Climate Change” (35:36 from the start), in Spilling the T (podcast), spoken by Caroline Bean, MBTA. From the entry buckle
  • “User agencies can no longer query or add data to the NLEAD,” the statement read.2025 February 22, Gloria Oladipo, “Trump administration shuts down national database documenting police misconduct”, in The Guardian. From the entry NLEAD
  • Requiring all agencies to follow the Australian Signals Directorate's 'best advice' is just too hard.2019 August 15, Asha Barbaschow, “Australian Signals Directorate launches open source data visualisation tool”, in ZDNET, archived from…. From the entry computering

Meaning of agency

  1. noun The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.
  2. noun The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.
  3. noun A medium through which power is exerted or an end is achieved.

Full definition of agency

Questions about the plural of agency

What is the plural of agency?
The plural of agency is agencies.
Is agency countable?
Agency is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: agency (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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