DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977

Synonyms:

Department of Energy; DOE; Energy; Energy Department

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "Department of Energy"):

Department of Energy Intelligence; DOEI (an agency that collects political and economic and technical information about energy matters and makes the Department of Energy's technical and analytical expertise available to other members of the Intelligence Community)

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