Agency

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Agency may refer to any of the following:

• Agency (country subdivision)
• Agency (law), the status of a person who acts for another person.
• Agency (Mormonism)
• Agency (philosophy), the capacity to make choices
• Employment agency, a business that serves as a representative, acting on behalf of another
• Free agency, availability status of a rostered player on a team or franchise.
• 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.

Organizations

• The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is colloquially called "the Agency".
• The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (when context allows this abbreviation without ambiguity; official term for internal use)
• The Agency, the former name of the fictional secret government organization in the video game series, Syphon Filter. Now called the International Presidential Consulting Agency.

Places:

• Agency, Iowa, USA
• Agency, Missouri, USA
• Agency, Montana, USA
• Agency Township, Iowa, USA
• Agency Township, Kansas, USA
• Agency Township, Missouri, USA
• Agency Township, South Dakota, USA

See also:

• Agent