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