government agency

Questions about government agency

What does government agency mean?

government agency means "an administrative unit of government".

What is another word for government agency?

Close synonyms include agency, federal 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 government agency a common word?

government 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.