# Agency

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**Agency** may refer to:

## Organizations

- [Institution](/source/Institution), governmental or others - [Advertising agency](/source/Advertising_agency) or marketing agency, a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising for its clients - [Employment agency](/source/Employment_agency), a business that serves as a representative, acting on behalf of another - [Escort agency](/source/Escort_agency), a company that provides escorts for clients, usually for sexual services - [Government agency](/source/Government_agency), a department of a local or national government responsible for the oversight and administration of a specific function - [Central Intelligence Agency](/source/Central_Intelligence_Agency), nicknamed "The Agency" - [International agency](/source/International_agency), an inter-governmental body

- - [News agency](/source/News_agency) - [Talent agency](/source/Talent_agency)
- [Highways Agency](/source/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](/source/Autonomy)
- [Agency (law)](/source/Agency_(law)), a person acting on behalf of another person
- [Agency (moral)](/source/Agency_(moral)), capacity for making moral judgments
- [Agency (philosophy)](/source/Agency_(philosophy)), the capacity of an autonomous agent to act, relating to action theory in philosophy
- [Agency (psychology)](/source/Agency_(psychology)), the ability to act independently
- [Agency (sociology)](/source/Agency_(sociology)), the ability of social actors to make independent choices, relating to action theory in sociology
- [Agency and structure](/source/Agency_and_structure), ability of an individual to organize future situations and resource distribution

## Places

- [Agency (administrative division)](/source/Agency_(administrative_division))
- [Agency, Iowa](/source/Agency,_Iowa), US
- [Agency, Missouri](/source/Agency,_Missouri), US
- [Agency, Montana](/source/Agency,_Montana), US
- [Agency Township (disambiguation)](/source/Agency_Township_(disambiguation)), name of townships in four US states

## Arts, entertainment and media

- [*Agency* (novel)](/source/Agency_(novel)), a science fiction novel by William Gibson
- [*The Agency* (comics)](/source/The_Agency_(comics))
- *[The Agency: Covert Ops](/source/The_Agency:_Covert_Ops)*, a spy-themed massively multiplayer online shooter video game

### Film and television

- [*Agency* (film)](/source/Agency_(film)), 1980 Canadian film starring Lee Majors
- [*The Agency* (2001 TV series)](/source/The_Agency_(2001_TV_series)), an American action-drama
- [*The Agency* (2007 TV series)](/source/The_Agency_(2007_TV_series)), an American reality series
- *[Morgana Robinson's The Agency](/source/Morgana_Robinson's_The_Agency)*, a 2016 British TV mockumentary
- The Agency, a fictional government organization in the 2000 TV series *[The Invisible Man](/source/The_Invisible_Man_(2000_TV_series)#The_Agency)*
- [*Agency* (South Korean TV series)](/source/Agency_(South_Korean_TV_series)), a 2023 television series
- [*The Agency* (2024 TV series)](/source/The_Agency_(2024_TV_series)), an American espionage thriller

## Other uses

- [Agency in Mormonism](/source/Agency_in_Mormonism), "the privilege of choice... introduced by God"
- [Agency security](/source/Agency_security), securities issued by government-sponsored enterprises, often simply referred to as "Agency"
- [Agency debt](/source/Agency_debt), US government-sponsored agency bonds

## See also

- [Agent (disambiguation)](/source/Agent_(disambiguation))
- [Free agency (disambiguation)](/source/Free_agency_(disambiguation))
- [Agency dilemma](/source/Agency_dilemma) or principal–agent problem, in political science, supply chain management and economics

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