UN agency
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- noun
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agencia de la ONU
- Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and UN agencies multiplied their efforts to refine their operations in light of the lessons of Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Kosovo.
- UN agencies and NGOs
- UN agencies and organizations
- UN agency or committee
I don't know if they're going to keep doing that, but I think international law and UN agencies are there for a reason and they are.
- I don't know if they're going to keep doing that, but I think international law and UN agencies are there for a reason and they are.
Examples
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Following the election, the UN agency that had administered the election, UNTAC, rapidly departed.
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UNHCR sends more aid to Honduras than any other UN agency.
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The paper drew on the experience and expertise of various UN agencies.
Academic text (2009) -
Shtayyah said, "All UN agencies are open to us."
Blog text (29) -
Although the Civil Rights Congress failed to gain a hearing for its appeal from any UN agency or committee, the petition campaign still had several important consequences.
Academic text (1997) -
Moreover, some UN agencies refuse to rehire workers who have been kicked out of a country.
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Another problem arises because UN agencies are not effectively linked to the various national academies of science that bring together many top experts.
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Patterson eventually authorized several appeals to UN agencies and committees on behalf of individual African Americans represented by his organization.
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The WIPO, which today has more than 160 members, was established as a UN agency only three decades ago, but it traces its roots back more than a century.
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The report highlights how UN agencies provide critical humanitarian assistance during crises.
Synonyms
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An organization within the United Nations that works on one area like health or education
How Big
- Archaic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'UN' identifies the United Nations and 'agency' denotes an organization acting on behalf or with a specific function, so a learner who knows both words can infer it means an organization belonging to the UN. This noun-noun combination follows regular English and cross-linguistic patterns, making the meaning immediately predictable for a B1 learner.
Etymology
UN agency comes from imagining the UN as a big organization and an agency as a small office that does one job. Think of the UN as a house with different rooms, each 'room' a UN agency that works on health, children, food or other tasks, so the phrase means 'an organization that is part of the United Nations and does a particular job'.