agency

The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.

A few advances there are in the following papers tending to assert the superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world.

Because structure in this argument means institutions— pregiven norms, values, beliefs, and practices— it is open-textured, incomplete, cannot guarantee its own applications, therefore, all behavior is action, has agency (Garfinkel 1964; Strauss et al. 1963).

The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.

moral agency

individual agency

A medium through which power is exerted or an end is achieved.

The office or function of an agent; also, the relationship between a principal and that person's agent.

authority of agency

An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency.

As an employment agency you have a responsibility to supply work to the individual agency worker, as well as a service to the client.