The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word AGENCIES
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result AGENCIES
- Bureaux and top-rank clubs invested in bottled spirits?
- . A long time to go round nice, new offices
- A number of years since breakdown of businesses
- CIA, NCA etc, with powers to use silver to displace cannabis
- Business types putting a Conservative in the best of spirits?
- Times keeps nice refurbed offices
- …. information gathered by special CIA drugs operations
- Businesses taking long time, possibly nice to work in
- A long time since wrinkly’s operations
- Businesses ceasing to work without a bit of encouragement
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What does AGENCIES mean?
AGENCIES noun- The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.
- The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.
- A medium through which power is exerted or an end is achieved.
- The office or function of an agent; also, the relationship between a principal and that person's agent.
- An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency.
- A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the district administered by such unit of government.