agencies
SayAY-juhn-seez/ˈeɪ.d͡ʒən.siz/
- 1Plural of agency.
Multiple federal agencies investigated the data breach.
The advertising agencies competed fiercely for the new account.
Note
A regular plural: after a consonant, final -y becomes -ies, the same pattern as policy and policies. In everyday use the plural is most often heard with agency's concrete meanings, such as the firms that do business on others' behalf and the departments of a government. That is why federal agencies and advertising agencies are its most familiar company.
agencies is a form of agency
agency, noun: A department or administrative unit of a government; also the headquarters or district that the unit administers. Full entry
- Forms
- agencyagencies plural
- Spelling
- agency → agencies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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