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agency
Noun
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An agency is a group of people called agents working together, or a place where agents work.
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# An agency is a company (business) which usually represents other people. The people at the agency work as agents to represent (stand for) their customers.
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#:Our agency works to help people find jobs in music.
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# Agency is a company that does something specific.
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#:Our ad agency has made advertisements for many important businesses.
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# An agency is a certain part of a government.
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#:He works for the real CIA, the actual Central Intelligence Agency.
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Agency is the ability to do something.
contract
Noun
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A contract is a legal agreement to trade goods, services and/or property. It's usually written down.
If you would just sign this contract, the car will be yours.
In Japan, most worker’s employment contracts last until the age of sixty.
My father’s employment contract is for forty years.
You must look over the contract before you sign it.
contract
Verb
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If something contracts, it gets smaller.
As the wood dries out, it contracts.
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If you contract someone to do a job, you enter into a contract with them.
We've contracted a cleaning company to take care of the office.
When there's too much work, there are a number of small firms to which we will contract it out.
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If you contract a disease, you become sick with it.
It's hard to understand why people risk contracting sexually transmitted diseases.
He contracted the flu.