government agencies
Public sector offices
Government agencies are organizations established by federal, state, or local governments to carry out specific functions—regulating industries, providing services, or enforcing laws.
The FBI, EPA, and Social Security Administration are federal agencies.
State agencies handle driver's licenses and unemployment benefits.
The term often carries bureaucratic connotations: I spent all day dealing with government agencies.
Also called government bureaus or departments.
- Federal Trade CommissionAgency overseeing marketplace fairness
- Coast GuardArmed service protecting waterways
- Federal Communications CommissionU.S. broadcast licensing body
- Federal Bureau of InvestigationNational criminal investigation agency
- Internal Revenue ServiceFederal tax collection agency
tax dollars · civil service · bureaucracy · red tape · Department of Transportation · regulatory bodies · Department of State · Department of Veterans Affairs · alphabet soup · Federal Reserve System · National Park Service · National Institutes of Health · Federal Aviation Administration · Department of Homeland Security · security clearance · background check · offices · permits
- governancedemocracy, vote, parliament, constitution, republic
- governmentministries, legislature, judiciary, executive branch, ministry
- administrative departmentsstate departments, regulatory bodies, treasury, interior, defense
- government administrationpublic administration, ministries, civil servants, public officials, state agencies
- public entitiespublic bodies, state enterprises, public corporations, state agencies, local authorities
- public servicecivil servant, civil servants, public servants, public servant, federal workers
government agenciesprivate companies
Businesses without public shareholders
private sector · corporations · private enterprise · businesses · commercial enterprises
government agenciesgrassroots movements
Citizen-led collective action
government agenciescooperatives
Member-owned collective enterprises
agency, government, governance, governmental, nongovernmental, government agency, self-governance, federal government, state government