agency vs end

agency

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

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

  • A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the district administered by such unit of government. 

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

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

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

end

noun
  • The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion. 

  • A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion. 

  • An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory) 

  • The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide. 

  • Result. 

  • A purpose, goal, or aim. 

  • The terminal point of something in space or time. 

  • One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet. 

  • Money. 

  • One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground. 

  • That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap. 

  • Death. 

  • The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end. 

verb
  • to come to an end 

  • To finish, terminate. 

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