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Agency may refer to:
- a governmental or other institution
- the abstract principle that autonomous beings, agents, are capable of acting by themselves; see autonomy
Abstract principle
- Agency (law), a person acting on behalf of another person
- Agency (LDS Church), "the privilege of choice... introduced by God"
- Agency (moral), capacity for making moral judgments
- Agency (philosophy), the capacity of an autonomous agent to act, relating to action theory in philosophy
- Agency (psychology), the ability to recognize or attribute agency in humans and non-human animals
- Agency (sociology), the ability of social actors to make independent choices, relating to action theory in sociology
- Agency and structure, ability of an individual to organize future situations and resource distribution
Organizations
- 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
- 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
- Marketing agency, a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling marketing for its clients
- News agency
- The Agency, a nickname for the Central Intelligence Agency
Places
- Agency (country subdivision)
- Agency, Iowa, US
- Agency, Missouri, US
- Agency, Montana, US
- Agency Township (disambiguation), name of townships in four US states
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Agency (novel), a science fiction novel by William Gibson
- The Agency (2001 TV series),
- The Agency (2007 TV series)
- The Agency (comics)
- The Agency (film), a 1980 Canadian film starring Lee Majors
- The Agency, name of the fictional secret government organization in the 2000 TV series The Invisible Man
- The Agency: Covert Ops, a spy-themed massively multiplayer online shooter video game
- Morgana Robinson's The Agency, a 2016 British TV mockumentary
See also
- Agent (disambiguation)
- Free agency (disambiguation)
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