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'''Agency''' may refer to:
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==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
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** [[News agency]]
** [[Talent agency]]
* [[Highways Agency]] (now National Highways), manages motorways and some major roads in England

==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 act independently
* [[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)|''Agency'' (novel)]], a science fiction novel by William Gibson
* [[The Agency (comics)|''The Agency'' (comics)]]
* ''[[The Agency: Covert Ops]]'', a spy-themed massively multiplayer online shooter video game

===Film and television===
* [[Agency (film)|''Agency'' (film)]], 1980 Canadian film starring Lee Majors
* [[The Agency (2001 TV series)|''The Agency'' (2001 TV series)]], an American action-drama
* [[The Agency (2007 TV series)|''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 (2000 TV series)#The Agency|The Invisible Man]]''
* [[Agency (South Korean TV series)|''Agency'' (South Korean TV series)]], a 2023 television series
* [[The Agency (2024 TV series)|''The Agency'' (2024 TV series)]], an American espionage thriller

==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

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