0 a business that represents one group of people when dealing with another group -- 代理机构
an advertising/employment/estate/travel agency 广告（代理）公司／职业介绍所／房地产中介／旅行社
the Central Intelligence Agency 中央情报局
1 because of the actions of someone -- 由于（某人）的作用；在（某人）的推动下
The advertising agency secured the contract on the back of their previous successful campaigns.
The holiday was cancelled so the travel agency had to refund everybody the price of the tickets.
The duty of the agency is to act in the best interests of the child.
For several years she operated a dating agency from her basement flat.
The agency was not accredited by the Philippine Consulate to offer contracts to Filipinos abroad.
States can provide their partners with funds, equipment and technology, and organizational blueprints to alter the format of such agencies.
Bureaucratic agencies often seek to broaden their institutional autonomy, and skillfully develop mechanisms to accomplish this.
Figure 1 (over) shows the resources held by ministers, departments and agencies.
