department of transportation

1. 1.

   the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966

   SynonymsTransportationDoT

   Broaderexecutive department

   PartsFederal Aviation AdministrationTransportation Security AdministrationUnited States Coast Guard

Questions about department of transportation

What does department of transportation mean?

department of transportation means "the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966".

What is another word for department of transportation?

Close synonyms include Transportation, DoT. 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 transportation a common word?

department of transportation 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.