Agency vs Administrative - What's the difference?
agency | administrative |
The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power; action or activity; operation.
A person or thing through which power is exerted or an end is achieved: 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.
A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the district administered by such unit of government.
As a noun agency
is the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power; action or activity; operation.As an adjective administrative is
of or relating to administering or administration.agency
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(agencies)- The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. --Woodward.
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
- Central Intelligence Agency