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Jose
agency
In an informal conversation i Heard ' they have more agency '.
I looked up in the dictionary and there is an idiom ' through the agency of someone,' this I understand but not ' they have more agency'.
I would appreciate if someone clears that up for me
21 Thg 02 2014 19:19
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1
Agency in this sense means something like the power or capacity to act.
See definition 2: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/agency
21 tháng 2 năm 2014
Capacity to act in the world is one meaning mentioned in this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy)
Agency is a term used by some religions. One church says that it is the gift to choose for ourselves.
http://www.lds.org/topics/agency?lang=eng
21 tháng 2 năm 2014
I agree with Evelyn. That sentence sounds very unusual and I suspect the person said a different word and not agency. What was the context? Urgency would make sense and so would agencies.
22 tháng 2 năm 2014
Hi Jose, I might offer a totally different suggestion. I have never heard this kind of use for agency and I wonder if perhaps that person was using the word, "urgency". Many speakers might say the words similarly and if it is not your own language, perhaps you did not hear it correctly. So you might like to replay the conversation in your mind and see if this word works in the context of the speaker's meaning.
21 tháng 2 năm 2014
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