government agency
- noun
- /ˈɡʌvərnmənt ˈeɪdʒənsi/
- More than 100 coastal scientists in government agencies and universities in Australia provide content for the website.
- federal government agency
- state government agency
- local government agency
We had countless federal and local government agencies that would oversee every single decision we made.
- We had countless federal and local government agencies that would oversee every single decision we made.
- And that could be anything from HHS to Treasury to what they call other government agencies, which I think is the CIA.
- And she talked about these men, this man that showed up from an unknown government agency.
- Well, you know, I think some of this is the often understandable slow movement of any government agency.
- You would, you know, send your bills in by mail, assuming that they would arrive, that a government agency would take care of the transport of them.
- And I was left in tears outside a facility, on the phone with the government agency and fighting for my rights for over an hour.
- He was saying that if it was a deep state operation or any kind of government agency that was that was doing this.
- And then government agencies are also going to face much stricter scrutiny when using any AI platforms.
- So as a community, service providers, government agencies and just communities need to listen to what survivors are telling us, right?
- The government agencies, probably the intelligence agencies had some involvement in this or awareness at least of this.
- So you, you had the, the White House, the surgeon General's office, the CDC, you know, sort of government agency after government agency.
- On the other hand, government agencies don't typically invest in doing large clinical trials for generic drugs.
- In order to get more funding, what these government agencies want to see is that there is a plan and a reasonable plan for rolling these therapies out at scale.
- But Doge does not have power over established government agencies, and Musk has no role in government.
Examples
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People often rely on a government agency to issue identification documents.
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I work for a government agency that deals with extraterrestrial allies.
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You know, I work for a government agency.
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I work for a government agency.
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And no single industry, government agency, or country can do it alone.
Academic text (1992) -
The committee may include members of the environmental community, the real estate community, and government agencies.
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As a result, however, conflict has broken out between some government agencies and community groups.
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Who else but a government agency would know the exact time, location and the layout of a secret grand jury hearing?
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Thai authorities have activated over one hundred government agencies.
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We rely on government agencies to tell us what pharmaceuticals are, are safe.
Synonyms
A business or organization that provides services for other people
A group of people chosen to investigate or manage something
A government department that deals with a specific area, like investigations
A government department that deals with a specific public matter like health or finance
A group that collects and studies secret information about other countries and threats
A government organization that does specific jobs for the national government, like the Environmental Protection Agency
A part of an organization, often a government, that has a particular job
A government group that checks companies and makes them follow safety rules to protect people
A government department or agency that works for the national government in the United States
A group in an area that helps local people with services
A part of government that runs public services like schools
A government group in the United States created by Congress that works apart from executive departments
A part of the national government that handles a specific public task, like law or health
A government office that manages certain public services for the country's leader
A government office that does one specific job
A small office that works under a larger organization
How Independent
- Formal
- Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derived from the constituents: 'government' (the state apparatus) + 'agency' (an organization providing services), so a B1 learner who knows both words can compose the sense of an organization belonging to or run by the government. This is a regular, productive noun–noun compound pattern found across languages and in everyday usage, making it immediately comprehensible to learners.
Etymology
The phrase government agency comes from the idea of agency as the 'power to act' for someone. So, the government gives an agency a specific job, and a government agency is the official group that does that job.