agency
Capacity to act
Agency is the capacity to act or exert power.
A person with agency can make choices and influence outcomes: The new policy gives employees more agency over their schedules.
An agency is also an organization that performs services—a government agency, a talent agency, an advertising agency.
These senses connect: an agency acts on behalf of others, exercising delegated power.
Control over one's fate
- free-willAutonomous decision-making capacity
- volitionCapacity for choice
- choiceAct of selecting
- empowermentGaining authority or confidence
independence · self-governance · self-reliance · liberty · freedom · self-direction · self-management · self-control
Office or furniture chest
- departmentDistinct unit within organization
- officeProfessional work location
- institutionEstablished organization or custom
- bodyPhysical structure, living thing
entity · establishment · commission · administration · council · directorate · ministry · division
Inborn aptitude
- managersThose who oversee operations
- actorsThose playing roles
- artistsMakers of creative works
- modelsScaled representations or fashion workers
musicians · athletes · writers · publicists · casting · bookings · contracts · auditions
Legal authority's scope
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- governanceHow authority is exercised
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
administration · control · enforcement · directive · sanction · authorization · commission · supervision
self-determination
Control over one's fate
empowerment · independence · self-governance · self-reliance · liberty · freedom · self-direction · self-management · self-control · intentionality
bureau
Office or furniture chest
- departmentDistinct unit within organization
- officeProfessional work location
- institutionEstablished organization or custom
body · entity · establishment · commission · administration · council · directorate · ministry · division · branch
talent
Inborn aptitude
models · musicians · athletes · writers · publicists · casting · bookings · contracts · auditions · portfolios
jurisdiction
Legal authority's scope
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- governanceHow authority is exercised
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
regulation · administration · control · enforcement · directive · sanction · authorization · commission · supervision · delegation
subjectivity
Personal viewpoint coloring perception
- positionalityContext shaping one's viewpoint
- voiceSound from throat
- stanceStanding posture or viewpoint
footing · identity · rhetoric · ideology · hegemony · speaker · utterance · narrative · framing · mediation
- groupsteam, teams, group, club, clubs
- bureaucracybureaucracy, bureaucrat, bureaucrats, red tape, civil service
- organizationsorganization, organizations, company, companies, club
- business venturesventure, startup, franchise, enterprise, investment
- businessesbusiness, company, bank, bakery, enterprise
- institutionsacademy, government, public hospitals, museum, public libraries
agencypowerlessness
Inability to affect outcomes
impotence · passivity · helplessness · incapacity · inability
agencysubjugation
Forcing into submission
subjection · servitude · oppression · bondage · enslavement
- secret agentClandestine government operative
- double agentSpy betraying their side
- free agentUnsigned professional seeking employment
- travel agentProfessional trip arranger
- travel agencyBusiness arranging trips
- real estate agentLicensed property seller