Noun

• S: (n) child welfare agency, child welfare service (an administrative unit responsible for social work concerned with the welfare and vocational training of children)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) administrative unit, administrative body (a unit with administrative responsibilities)
• S: (n) Inland Revenue, IR (a board of the British government that administers and collects major direct taxes)
• S: (n) Ordnance Survey (the official cartography agency of the British government)
• S: (n) division (an administrative unit in government or business)
• S: (n) United Nations agency, UN agency (an agency of the United Nations)
• S: (n) council (a body serving in an administrative capacity) "student council"
• S: (n) secretariat, secretariate (an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations)
• S: (n) committee, commission (a special group delegated to consider some matter) "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle
• S: (n) agency, federal agency, government agency, bureau, office, authority (an administrative unit of government) "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority"
• S: (n) intelligence, intelligence service, intelligence agency (a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy)
• S: (n) international law enforcement agency (an international administrative unit responsible for law enforcement)
• S: (n) redevelopment authority (a public administrative unit given responsibility for the renovation of blighted urban areas)
• S: (n) regulatory agency, regulatory authority (a governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest)
• S: (n) weather bureau (an administrative unit responsible for gathering and interpreting meteorological data for weather study and forecasts)
• S: (n) placement office, placement center (an office that finds suitable employment for applicants)
• S: (n) child welfare agency, child welfare service (an administrative unit responsible for social work concerned with the welfare and vocational training of children)
• S: (n) Russian agency (an administrative agency of the Russian government)