department of the interior

Questions about department of the interior

What does department of the interior mean?

department of the interior means "the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849".

What is another word for department of the interior?

Close synonyms include Interior Department, Interior, DoI. 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 the interior a common word?

department of the interior 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for department of the interior come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.