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Definition of Agentry
1. the office or duties of an agent [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agentry
Literary usage of Agentry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden by New-York Historical Society, Cadwallader Colden (1879)
"... without their aid de camps—it is true the odium I should incur by my agentry
on this occasion would be removed if I could plead the order of Congress, ..."
2. Military Ethics: Reflections on Principles: Profession of Arms, Mil. Leader edited by Malham M. Wakin (1987)
"... field commanders have a certain lack of confidence in headquarters types,
particularly when the odor of politics or press-agentry hangs over an issue. ..."
3. Problems of the Playwright by Clayton Meeker Hamilton (1917)
"The persistent practice of press-agentry alienates more people from the theatre
than it attracts; ..."
4. Brougham and His Early Friends: Letters to James Loch, 1798-1809 by Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux (1908)
"Henry is of all men that I know the most convenient for the agentry (not Gentry,
for they are great scoundrels in general) practitioners in the Courts, ..."
5. War Emergency Construction (housing War Workers) by United States Housing Corporation (1920)
"... Service Committee—Listing and classifying the vacancies—Need of a placement
agentry —Administration of Homes Registration Service —Statistics of Homes ..."
6. The Command is Forward: Tales of the A.E.F. Battlefields as They Appeared in by Alexander Woollcott (1919)
"There is here, then, no taint of press agentry for one division as against another.
But that is not to say that "The Stars and Stripes" played no favorites ..."
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