department of justice

Questions about department of justice

What does department of justice mean?

department of justice means "the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870".

What is another word for department of justice?

Close synonyms include Justice Department, Justice, DoJ. 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 department of justice a common word?

department of justice 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.