Agency

Agency may refer to:

• A governmental or other institution
• The abstract principle that autonomous beings, agents, are capable of acting by themselves; see autonomy

Organizations

See § Media and fiction below for fictional agencies.

• 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
• News agency
• The Agency, a nickname for the Central Intelligence Agency

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 (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 (country subdivision)
• Agency, Iowa, US
• Agency, Missouri, US
• Agency, Montana, US
• Agency Township (disambiguation), name of townships in four US states

Media and fiction

• Agency (film), a 1980 film starring Lee Majors
• The Agency (2001 TV series),
• The Agency (2007 TV series)
• The Agency (comics)
• The Agency (film), a 1980 Canadian film
• The Agency: Covert Ops, a spy-themed massively multiplayer online shooter video game
• The Agency, name of the fictional secret government organization in the 2000 TV series The Invisible Man
• Morgana Robinson's The Agency, a 2016 British TV mockumentary
• Agency (novel), an upcoming science fiction novel by William Gibson

See also

• Agent (disambiguation)
• Free agency (disambiguation)