agency

organisme, agence

Organisation chargée d’une mission particulière pour le gouvernement.

En anglais simple : An organization that carries out a particular job for the government.

• The agency investigates serious crimes.
• She worked for a national intelligence agency.
• Government agencies shared information about the flood.

Synonymes : department, bureau

Expressions courantes : intelligence agency, government agency, federal agency

organisme, agence

Organisation chargée d’une mission particulière pour le gouvernement.

En anglais simple : An organization that carries out a particular job for the government.

• The agency investigates serious crimes.
• She worked for a national intelligence agency.
• Government agencies shared information about the flood.

Synonymes : department, bureau

Expressions courantes : intelligence agency, government agency, federal agency

organisme, agence

Organisation chargée d’une mission particulière pour le gouvernement.

En anglais simple : An organization that carries out a particular job for the government.

• The agency investigates serious crimes.
• She worked for a national intelligence agency.
• Government agencies shared information about the flood.

Synonymes : department, bureau

Expressions courantes : intelligence agency, government agency, federal agency, public agency

capacité d'agir, agentivité

Possibilité de faire ses propres choix et d’agir pour influencer les événements.

En anglais simple : The ability to make your own choices and act to influence what happens.

• The children need a sense of agency.
• Having choices gives patients greater agency.
• The study examines human agency in social change.

Synonymes : autonomy, self-determination

Expressions courantes : personal agency, human agency, sense of agency

mandat, représentation

Rôle consistant à agir pour une autre personne, ou relation juridique qui le permet.

En anglais simple : The role or legal relationship of someone who acts for another person.

• They signed an agency agreement.
• The court examined the agency relationship between the two parties.
• Agency gives her authority to act for the owner.

Synonymes : representation

Expressions courantes : agency agreement, agency relationship, law of agency