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department of labor has 3 distinct synonyms spread across 1 of its 1 sense. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for department of labor come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.