Agency

Agency

Agency may refer to any of the following:

*Agency (country subdivision)
*Agency (law), the status of a person who acts for another person.
*Agency (Mormonism)
*Agency (philosophy), the capacity to make choices
*Employment agency, a business that serves as a representative, acting on behalf of another
*Free agency, availability status of a rostered player on a team or franchise.
*Government agency, 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
*Moral agency, capacity for making moral judgments.
*Structure and agency, ability of an actor to organize future situations and resource distribution.
*"Agency", a 1980 film starring Lee Majors

Organizations
* The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is colloquially called "the Agency".
* The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (when context allows this abbreviation without ambiguity; official term for internal use)
* The Agency, the former name of the fictional secret government organization in the video game series, "Syphon Filter". Now called the International Presidential Consulting Agency.
* The 4film Agency film producer of movies IndustryPlaces:
*Agency, Iowa, USA
*Agency, Missouri, USA
*Agency, Montana, USA
*Agency Township, Iowa, USA
*Agency Township, Kansas, USA
*Agency Township, Missouri, USA
*Agency Township, South Dakota, USA

See also:
*Agent


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