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Agency

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Anagency is anorganization which acts on behalf of others. There arecommercial agencies, andgovernment agencies.^[1]Dictionary.com defines 'agency': "an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another: a welfare agency".^[2] Actors, models, authors, sportspeople all have agents or agencies.

Bureau

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Abureau is agency within an agency. For example:

TheUnited States Department of the Interior is responsible for preserving the land and forests, and state parks. An agency within the Interior Department, theBureau of Indian Affairs has the job of providing certain services tonative American and nativeAlaskan tribes.
TheUnited States Department of Homeland Security, tasked with protecting the country from foreign threats, uses theFederal Bureau of Investigation as a nationalpolice force againstterrorism andtreason.

World

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United States

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In theUnited States, government agencies include theUnited States Department of Homeland Security, which has the job of protecting U.S.citizens; theUnited States Department of Education, which sets certain rules for how U.S.schools are to be run; and theUnited States Department of the Treasury, which helps keep track of the nation'smoney supply.

Sources

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↑The use of "agency" for a government organization is anAmerican usage. In theUnited Kingdom, the word is mostly used for commercial agencies.
↑"the definition of agency".www.dictionary.com.

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