defense department

Questions about defense department

What does defense department mean?

defense department means "the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947".

What is another word for defense department?

Close synonyms include Department of Defense, United States Department of Defense, Defense, DoD. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is defense department a common word?

defense department is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.