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Agency

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

Places

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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