Agency

Agency may refer to:

• Agency (country subdivision)
• Agency (law), refers to a person who acts on behalf of another person.
• Agency (Mormonism)
• Agency (sociology), the ability of social actors to make independent choices.
• Agency (philosophy), relating to action theory (philosophy).
• Advertising agency, a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising for its clients.
• Employment agency, 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.
• 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 (film), a 1980 film starring Lee Majors.
• bond (finance), a debt security, in which the authorized issuer owes the holders a debt.

Organizations

• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), colloquially called "the Agency"
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA), colloquially called "the Agency"
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (when context allows this abbreviation without ambiguity; official term for internal use)