EXECUTIVE AGENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does executive agency mean? 

• EXECUTIVE AGENCY (noun)
  The noun EXECUTIVE AGENCY has 1 sense:

1. an agency of the executive branch of government

  Familiarity information: EXECUTIVE AGENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXECUTIVE AGENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agency of the executive branch of government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("executive agency" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "executive agency"):

AEC; Atomic Energy Commission (a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States)

Manhattan Project (a former United States executive agency that was responsible for developing atomic bombs during World War II)

Council of Economic Advisors (an executive agency responsible for providing economic advice to the President)

National Security Council; NSC (a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security; supervises the Central Intelligence Agency)

Council on Environmental Policy (the executive agency that advises the President on protecting the environment)

Joint Chiefs; Joint Chiefs of Staff (the executive agency that advises the President on military questions; composed of the chiefs of the United States Army and the United States Navy and the United States Air Force and the commandant of the United States Marine Corps)

Office of Management and Budget; OMB (the executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget)

United States Trade Representative; US Trade Representative (the executive agency that administers the President's policies on international trade)

Holonyms ("executive agency" is a part of...):

executive branch; Executive Office of the President (the branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws)