DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862

Synonyms:

Agriculture; Agriculture Department; Department of Agriculture; USDA

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Department of Agriculture" is a kind of...):

executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)

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