department of commerce and labor

1. 1.

   a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1903 and split into two departments in 1913

   Broaderexecutive department

Questions about department of commerce and labor

What does department of commerce and labor mean?

department of commerce and labor means "a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1903 and split into two departments in 1913".

Is department of commerce and labor a common word?

department of commerce and labor 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.