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Government agency   /gˈəvərmənt ˈeɪdʒənsi/   Listen
Government agency

noun
1.
An administrative unit of government.  Synonyms: agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, office.  "The Census Bureau" , "Office of Management and Budget" , "Tennessee Valley Authority"






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"Government agency" Quotes from Famous Books



... collection. In order to provide this access, a librarian may attempt to find material not included in the library's own collection in other libraries in the system, through interlibrary loan, or through a referral, perhaps to a government agency or a commercial bookstore. Interlibrary loan is expensive, however, and is therefore used infrequently. Public librarians also apply professional standards to their collection development practices. Public ...
— Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

... superintendent to arrest you and take you back with us. The superintendent says you are one of the bad Indians, singing war songs and opposing the government all the time; this morning you were seen trying to set fire to the government agency." ...
— American Indian stories • Zitkala-Sa

... and then again, taking another turn, pursued its original westernly coarse, and, passing near the Fort, gave to the latter the appearance of a slightly elevated peninsula, separated only from the water by a gentle declivity of no great extent. On the same side of the river was the Government Agency House, and at about a quarter of a mile from that, a spot generally used as a place of encampment by the friendly Indians—at that moment occupied by a numerous band of Pottawattamies. Immediately ...
— Hardscrabble - The Fall of Chicago: A Tale of Indian Warfare • John Richardson

... (SCS), a U.S. Government agency, has probably put a soil auger into your very land or a plot close by. Its tests have been correlated and mapped; the soils underlying the maritime Northwest have been named and categorized by texture, depth, and ability to provide available moisture. The maps are precise and detailed ...
— Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway • Steve Solomon



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