Agency

Agency may refer to:

Organizations

• Institution, governmental or others
  • Advertising agency or marketing 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
    • Central Intelligence Agency, nicknamed "The Agency"
  • International agency, an inter-governmental body
  • News agency
  • Talent agency

Social science

• Agency, the abstract principle that autonomous beings, agents, are capable of acting by themselves; see Autonomy
• Agency (law), a person acting on behalf of another person
• 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

Places

• Agency (administrative division)
• 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 (comics)
• The Agency: Covert Ops, a spy-themed massively multiplayer online shooter video game

Film and television

• The Agency (film), a 1980 Canadian film starring Lee Majors
• The Agency (2001 TV series), an American action-drama
• The Agency (2007 TV series), an American reality series
• Morgana Robinson's The Agency, a 2016 British TV mockumentary
• The Agency, a fictional government organization in the 2000 TV series The Invisible Man
• Agency (South Korean TV series), a 2023 television series

Other uses

• Agency in Mormonism, "the privilege of choice... introduced by God"
• Agency security, securities issued by government-sponsored enterprises, often simply referred to as "Agency"
• Agency debt, US government-sponsored agency bonds

See also

• Agent (disambiguation)
• Free agency (disambiguation)
• Agency dilemma or principal–agent problem, in political science, supply chain management and economics

1. Government agency
2. Anadolu Agency
3. National Security Agency
4. Intelligence agency
5. Advertising agency
6. ISBN
7. Central Intelligence Agency
8. News agency
9. Travel agency
10. Reuters
11. European Space Agency
12. Security agency
13. Alphabet agencies
14. Aid agency
15. Escort agency
16. Media agency
17. Agency (philosophy)
18. NASA
19. Law of agency
20. Employment agency