government agency
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgovernmentandagency
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government
noun
uk/ˈɡʌv.ən.mənt/us/ˈɡʌv.ɚn.mənt/
the group of people who officially control ...
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agency
noun
uk/ˈeɪ.dʒən.si/us/ˈeɪ.dʒən.si/
a business that represents one group of people when dealing with ...
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(Definition ofgovernmentandagencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Market power may be particularly important when the 'eco-entrepreneur' is agovernmentagencyin charge of large areas of endangered ecosystems.
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This collectivity may be a social club, a voluntary association, a religious group, agovernmentagency, or a profit-making business enterprise.
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A few interviewers did obtain other research positions; one has been employed quite consistently as an interviewer with a federalgovernmentagency.
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Public funds can be funnelled indirectly, through care recipients to their family-care providers, or can be made directly from agovernmentagencyto the care-giver.
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In centrally governed social-ecological systems, monitors would be employed and paid by agovernmentagency.
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The underlying weaknesses have to do with the rigid administrative structure typical of agovernmentagencyand the poor incentive system.
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As a cor poratist entity, it was administered like any othergovernmentagency.
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First and foremost this applies to activities of government agencies; the court may say, this is an unreasonable activity for agovernmentagency.
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The solution that a court offers can differ dramatically from one that a legislative body, orgovernmentagency, provides.
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However, the rise of powerful civil servants in eachgovernmentagencyin the immediate postwar period changed things.
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Ostrom shows that the externality problem of over-exploiting these basins was successfully solved by decentralized water companies themselves, without needing agovernmentagencyto enforce an efficient solution.
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Assume that there is a "sole owner," for example, agovernmentagencyor a private firm, who owns all rights to the exploitation of the fish population.
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An interactive website not only offers email addresses for sending enquiries but also enables citizens to download forms and email them to the relevantgovernmentagency.
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One alternative to this model is that policy and administrative functions may be separated, so that the social insurance body is, in effect, a centralgovernmentagency.
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I have called for a well-resourced, singlegovernmentagency, with the power to ensure that child welfare reform happens.
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It is always important to monitor and evaluate the work of anygovernmentagency.
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However, the term "governmentagency" is not entirely clear and could have inadvertently suggested that some public authorities would not be covered.
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If so, is there a substantial increase in the extent to which information is transferred between onegovernmentagencyand local authorities?
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Investment in new commercial ventures by bothgovernmentagencyand the private sector is often the only way of getting such ventures off the ground.
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