Word

agency, n.
(agencies)
freq. cnt. 27

an administrative unit of government
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 48 freq. cnt.: 24 freq. cnt.: 20 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1

agency authority bureau federal agency government agency office

sample sentences

"the Central Intelligence Agency"
"the Census Bureau"
"Office of Management and Budget"
"Tennessee Valley Authority"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

official

semantic pointers

instance hyponym

Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL Army High Performance Computing Research Center, AHPCRC Naval Research Laboratory, NRL United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory, US Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory, USACIL

hypernym

administrative unit, administrative body

hyponym

executive agency Food and Drug Administration, FDA Center for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC Counterterrorist Center, CTC Nonproliferation Center, NPC Bureau of the Census, Census Bureau National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA National Climatic Data Center, NCDC National Weather Service Technology Administration National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST National Technical Information Service, NTIS Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA Department of Defense Laboratory System, LABLINK Department of Energy Intelligence, DOEI United States Public Health Service, PHS National Institutes of Health, NIH Bureau of Justice Assistance, BJA Bureau of Justice Statistics, BJS Immigration and Naturalization Service, INS United States Border Patrol, US Border Patrol Bureau of Diplomatic Security, DS Foreign Service Bureau of Intelligence and Research, INR United States Fish and Wildlife Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, FWS National Park Service Financial Management Service Office of Intelligence Support, OIS Comptroller of the Currency Bureau of Customs, Customs Bureau, Customs Service, USCB Bureau of Engraving and Printing Internal Revenue Service, IRS FAA, Federal Aviation Administration Transportation Security Administration, TSA Government Accounting Office, GAO, United States Government Accounting Office United States Navy, US Navy, USN, Navy United States Coast Guard, U. S. Coast Guard, US Coast Guard Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, NAWCWPNS Naval Special Warfare, NSW Naval Surface Warfare Center, NSWC Naval Underwater Warfare Center, NUWC Office of Naval Intelligence, ONI Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, MCIA United States Air Force, U. S. Air Force, US Air Force, Air Force, USAF Air Force Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Air Force ISR, AFISR independent agency Advanced Research and Development Activity, ARDA Defense Logistics Agency Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service, DRMS Defense Technical Information Center, DTIC law enforcement agency Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA organ Patent and Trademark Office Database, Patent Office United States Government Printing Office, US Government Printing Office, Government Printing Office, GPO National Guard Bureau, NGB United States Army, US Army, U. S. Army, Army, USA Army Intelligence, AI Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, BMDO Defense Information Systems Agency, DISA National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, NGA Casualty Care Research Center, CCRC Federal Housing Administration, FHA local authority

a business or organization that provides a particular service, especially the mediation of transactions between two parties
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 6

agency

semantic pointers

hypernym

business, business concern, concern, business organization, business organisation

hyponym

advertising agency, ad agency credit bureau detective agency employment agency, employment office mercantile agency, commercial agency news agency, press agency, wire service, press association, news organization, news organisation service agency, service bureau, service firm travel agency transfer agent

the state of being in action or exerting power
<noun.state> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

agency

sample sentences

"the agency of providence"
"she has free agency"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

agential agent

semantic pointers

hypernym

activity, action, activeness

hyponym

Frankenstein

thing or person that acts to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
<noun.act> freq. cnt.: 111 freq. cnt.: 61 freq. cnt.: 50

agency means way