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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A former executive department of the United States government; created in 1903 and split into two departments in 1913
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Department of Commerce and Labor" is a kind of...):
executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)