public agency

collocation in English

meaningsofpublicandagency

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public
adjective
uk
/ˈpʌb.lɪk/us
/ˈpʌb.lɪk/
relating to or involving people in general, rather than being limited to a particular group ...
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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 ofpublicandagencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpublic agency

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They moved into line with thepublicagencyfor different reasons.
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They do not work for political parties or for ministers of state or any government orpublicagency.
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Even then, roughly one-third of the cases never moved beyond thepublicagency.
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Even if communication between the taxpayer and thepublicagencyis not web-based, the back-office situation is already characterised by high levels of integration and digitisation.
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We need strict rules, regulation of the market andpublicagencymonitoring.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
They have set up apublicagencyto try to handle some of these challenges.
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The question is: what is thepublicagency, and in what circumstances and how should it act?
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There is no reason to believe that anypublicagencyacted improperly in the affair.
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How can it be right not to have some provision making it necessary to report a transaction above a certain level to somepublicagency?
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Any otherpublicagencythat had mislaid £2.18 million would by now have received serious attention from its auditors, if not from the police.
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That concern is not answered formally by anypublicagency.
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Will the accounts of the interim scheme, and ultimately of thepublicagency, be made public?
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This is irrespective of whether the service is being conducted through a private orpublicagency.
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Any grant support paid is channelled through the sponsoringpublicagency.
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Many of the largerpublicagencybodies concerned with the countryside have unchallengeable powers.
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This will be conducted, if it is approved, by a suitablepublicagency.
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But is anotherpublicagencyreally the kind of legislative environment people in this country really want?
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Now, apublicagencyfor non-sovereign assets has some attractions, but how do we get over the implied guarantee?
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
It is remarkable that nopublicagencyhas any formal responsibility for recovering the bodies of men lost at sea.
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It is nothing other than apublicagency.
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