department of veterans affairs

1. 1.

   the United States federal department responsible for the interests of military veterans; created in 1989

   SynonymsVA

   Broaderexecutive department

Questions about department of veterans affairs

What does department of veterans affairs mean?

department of veterans affairs means "the United States federal department responsible for the interests of military veterans; created in 1989".

What is another word for department of veterans affairs?

Close synonyms include VA. 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 veterans affairs a common word?

department of veterans affairs 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.