Urgency vs Agency - What's the difference?
urgency | agency |
The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
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, date=September 24
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, title=Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton
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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 nouns the difference between urgency and agency
is that urgency is the quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion while agency is the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power; action or activity; operation.urgency
English
Noun
(urgencies)citation, page= , passage=Arsenal lacked urgency and inspiration until shortly before half-time, Wheater's block denying Van Persie from close range before Walcott drilled wide.}}
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
