executive agency

1. 1.

   an agency of the executive branch of government

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   Part ofexecutive branch

Questions about executive agency

What does executive agency mean?

executive agency means "an agency of the executive branch of government".

Is executive agency a common word?

executive agency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.