agencja

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See also: agencją

Polish

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Austrian German Agentie. First attested in 1676.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈɡɛn.t͡sja/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt͡sja
  • Syllabification: a‧gen‧cja

Noun

agencja f (related adjective agencyjny)

  1. agency (company that performs various tasks)
  2. agency (association that finds work for actors or other public people)
  3. agency (department or other administrative unit of a government)
  4. (Middle Polish) representation of someone's business or interest

Declension

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Collocations

Descendants

  • Kashubian: agencjô
  • Silesian: agyncyjŏ

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), agencja is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 0 times in scientific texts, 68 times in news, 6 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 176 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling times, making it the 846th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “agencja”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “agencja”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  3. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “agencja”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  4. ^ Teresa Sokołowska (02.01.2020) “AGENCJA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  5. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “agencja”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 2

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