• Agency (country subdivision)
• Agency (law)
  Agency (law)
  The law of agency is an area of commercial law dealing with a contractual or quasi-contractual, or non-contractual set of relationships when a person, called the agent, is authorized to act on behalf of another to create a legal relationship with a third party...
  
  , refers to a person who acts on behalf of another person.
• Agency (Mormonism)
  Agency (Mormonism)
  Agency , in Latter-day Saint theology, is "the privilege of choice which was introduced by God the Eternal Father to all of his spirit children in the premortal state". Mortal life is viewed as a test of faith, where our choices are central to the Plan of Salvation...
  
  
• Agency (sociology)
  Agency (sociology)
  In the social sciences, agency refers to the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices. By contrast, "Structure" refers to the factors of influence that determine or limit an agent and his or her decisions...
  
  , the ability of social actors to make independent choices.
• Agency (philosophy), relating to action theory (philosophy)
  Action theory (philosophy)
  Action theory is an area in philosophy concerned with theories about the processes causing willful human bodily movements of more or less complex kind. This area of thought has attracted the strong interest of philosophers ever since Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics...
  
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• Advertising agency
  Advertising agency
  An advertising agency or ad agency is a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising for its clients. An ad agency is independent from the client and provides an outside point of view to the effort of selling the client's products or services...
  
  , a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising for its clients.
• Employment agency
  Employment agency
  An employment agency is an organization which matches employers to employees. In all developed countries there is a publicly funded employment agency and multiple private businesses which also act as employment agencies.-Public employment agencies:...
  
  , a business that serves as a representative, acting on behalf of another.
• Free agency, the availability status of a rostered player on a team or franchise who is a free agent
  Free agent
  In professional sports, a free agent is a player whose contract with a team has expired and who is thus eligible to sign with another club or franchise....
  
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• Government agency
  Government agency
  A government or state agency is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an intelligence agency. There is a notable variety of agency types...
  
  , a department of a local or national government responsible for the oversight and administration of a specific function.
• International agency, an inter-governmental body.
• News agency
  News agency
  A news agency is an organization of journalists established to supply news reports to news organizations: newspapers, magazines, and radio and television broadcasters. Such an agency may also be referred to as a wire service, newswire or news service.-History:The oldest news agency is Agence...
  
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• Moral agency
  Moral agency
  Moral agency is a person's ability to make moral judgments and take action that comport with morality.A Moral agent is "a being who is capable of acting with reference to right and wrong"-Development and analysis:...
  
  , capacity for making moral judgments.
• Structure and agency
  Structure and agency
  The question over the primacy of either structure or agency in human behavior is a central debate in the social sciences. In this context, "agency" refers to the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices. "Structure", by contrast, refers to the recurrent...
  
  , ability of an actor to organize future situations and resource distribution.
• Agency (film), a 1980 film starring Lee Majors
  Lee Majors
  Lee Majors is an American television, film and voice actor, best known for his starring role as Colonel Steve Austin in The Six Million Dollar Man and as Colt Seavers in The Fall Guy ....
  
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• bond (finance)
  Bond (finance)
  In finance, a bond is a debt security, in which the authorized issuer owes the holders a debt and, depending on the terms of the bond, is obliged to pay interest to use and/or to repay the principal at a later date, termed maturity...
  
  , a debt security, in which the authorized issuer owes the holders a debt.

• Central Intelligence Agency
  Central Intelligence Agency
  The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...
  
   (CIA), colloquially called "the Agency"
• Food and Drug Administration
  Food and Drug Administration
  The Food and Drug Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments...
  
   (FDA), colloquially called "the Agency"
• International Atomic Energy Agency
  International Atomic Energy Agency
  The International Atomic Energy Agency is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. The IAEA was established as an autonomous organization on 29 July 1957...
  
   (IAEA) (when context allows this abbreviation without ambiguity; official term for internal use)

See also

• Agent (disambiguation)
• Agency Township (disambiguation)
• The Agency (disambiguation)