The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power. / (sociology, philosophy, psychology) The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.

(US, humorous) The National Security Agency.

plural of agency

(Britain, historical) An executive agency of the Department for Transport in the United Kingdom with responsibility for managing the core road network in England; superseded by Highways England.

An organisation that matches employers to employees.

A business that endeavors to introduce men and women for the purpose of marriage, dating or penpals.

A company which arranges dates and marriages between men and women, often from different countries.

A governmental agency that is devoted to the information gathering (known in the context as "intelligence") for purposes of national security and defense.

(publishing) A pricing system in which a supplier sets the price charged for their product by a reseller, with the reseller contractually positioned as an agent of the supplier rather than as an independent broker between supplier and consumer.

(US) A news agency