Definition of Subagency

1. n. A subordinate agency.

Definition of Subagency

1. Noun. An agency that is subordinate to, or part of, another. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Subagency

1. [n -CIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Subagency

subadiabatic
subadnate
subadolescent
subadolescents
subadult
subadults
subaduncate
subadviser
subadvisers
subadvocate
subadvocates
subaerial
subaerially
subaffluent
subagencies
subagency (current term)
subagent
subagents
subah
subahdar
subahdars
subahs
subaid
subaided
subaiding
subaids
subalar
subalgebra
subalgebraic
subalgebras

Literary usage of Subagency

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs by United States Office of Indian Affairs (1881)
"paroled by that officer and allowed to return to the subagency. September 30, Colonel Biddle, with some troops, was seut to the subagency to take them and ..."

2. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs by United States Office of Indian Affairs (1886)
"As I have previously recommended (ne'e my letter of July 14, 1886), 1 now urge, in the interest of these Indians and that of economy, that the subagency at ..."

3. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs by United States Office of Indian Affairs (1897)
"Pawnee subagency is 33 miles southeast; Otoe subagency, 8 miles south, and Oakland subagency, the home of the Tonkawas, 15 miles northwest of Ponca. ..."

4. Affairs of the Mexican Kickapoo Indians: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of by Henry Moore Teller (1908)
"How many Indians are now under your care? (6) How many allotments of land in all have been made and patented to the Indians of the agency or subagency now ..."

5. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1874)
"It has been proposed to establish i subagency in the Sau Juan Valley at the ... If this subagency is establish^!. it will be necessary to have a small ..."

6. Supplement to the Codes and General Laws of the State of California of 1915 by California, James Henry Deering (1917)
"... shall maintain a branch or subagency he shall apply for a separate registration for such branch or subagency and shall pay therefor the fee provided in ..."

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