INDEPENDENT AGENCY as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments
   Hypernyms(s) independent agency is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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