agency

Roget category 170

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.8. Causation
›› 1.8.3. Power in operation

#170. Agency

noun

agency, operation, force, working, strain, function, office, maintenance, exercise, work, swing, play — interworking^†, interaction — procurement.
causation etc. 153 — instrumentality etc. 631 — influence etc. 175 — action etc. (voluntary) 680 — modus operandi etc. 627.
quickening power, maintaining power, sustaining power — home stroke.

verb

be in action etc. adj. — operate, work — act, act upon — perform, play, support, sustain, strain, maintain, take effect, quicken, strike.
come play, come bring into operation — have play, have free play — bring to bear upon.

adjective

operative, efficient, efficacious, practical, effectual.
at work, on foot — acting etc. (doing) 680 — in operation, in force, in action, in play, in exercise — acted upon, wrought upon.

adverb

by the agency of, etc. n. — through etc. (instrumentality) 631 — by means of etc. 632.

phrase

I myself must mix with action lest I wither by I myself must mix with action lest I wither by despair" [Tennyson].

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