executive agency
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5.8
- noun
- /ɪɡˈzɛkjʊtɪv ˈeɪdʒənsi/
- Formal
:
agencia ejecutiva
- An advisory committee is established by either the President or an executive agency and is made up of a group of experts in a particular field.
- the President and executive agencies
- only administrative and executive agencies
- executive agency rule-making
Examples
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In some cases, Congress has gone to extraordinary lengths to deprive executive agencies of executive power.
Academic text (1990) -
Federal aid is categorical rather than general, and is administered to the states and public schools through executive agencies.
Academic text (1992) -
The NSF also serves as the executive agency for the international partnership.
Blog text (24) -
To provide a check on the growing power of specialized executive agencies, Congress passed the Administrative Procedure Act in 1946.
Academic text (1996) -
To achieve this goal, FACA requires that the President or an executive agency may only establish essential new advisory committees.
Academic text (1995) -
State constitutions, statutes, and the regulations of state executive agencies are the means to control public education in each state.
Academic text (1994) -
The federal government uses procurement contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements to reflect a legal relationship between an executive agency and a federal funding recipient.
Academic text (2017) -
For executive agencies, leaderless periods mean decisions not made, initiatives not launched, and accountability not upheld.
Academic text (2000) -
The administrative functions would, as suggested by Brookings, be vested in an executive agency (rather than a judicial branch entity), which would administer all liquidation cases and wage earner cases.
Academic text (2017) -
The Department of Health is an executive agency that oversees public health policies.
Synonyms
87
3.1
An official part of the government that provides a public service
How Independent
- Formal
11
4.0
87
3.1
- Formal
1
5.8
14
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is a straightforward modifier + head composition: 'executive' (relating to management/implementation or the executive branch) qualifies 'agency' (an organization that performs a service), so the combined meaning of an agency belonging to or performing executive/administrative functions is directly inferable. This is a common, cross-linguistically transparent pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would very likely understand the MWE.
Etymology
Executive agency comes from the simple image of a team that carries out a leader's orders: executive means 'to carry out' and agency is a group that acts for someone. So an executive agency is a government group set up to do a specific job for the leader or the government.