federal agency

Questions about federal agency

What does federal agency mean?

federal agency means "an administrative unit of government".

What is another word for federal agency?

Close synonyms include agency, government agency, bureau, office, authority. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is federal agency a common word?

federal 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.