superagency

American  

[soo-per-ey-juhn-see] / ˈsu pərˌeɪ dʒən si /

noun

plural

superagencies

1. a very large agency, especially a large government agency that oversees smaller ones.

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Etymology

Origin of superagency

First recorded in 1890–95; super- + agency

Example Sentences

The body is also planning to search for a prominent woman to oversee a newly established superagency to promote women's political and social rights and economic empowerment.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2010

Simon, a decisive policymaker and superbly organized administrator, had to create a superagency virtually overnight.

From Time Magazine Archive

Proponents of a new RFC envisage a superagency empowered to dispense economic aid on a grand scale, as the original certainly did.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moving at last to cut through the bureaucratic confusion that has bogged down the Administration's attempts to deal with the energy crisis, President Nixon this week created a new superagency, the Federal Energy Administration.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet that hardly kept Greenspan from having to marshal his political cunning to defend himself against the Treasury's bid for a banking superagency.

From Time Magazine Archive