energy department

1. 1.

   the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977

   SynonymsDepartment of EnergyEnergyDOE

   Broaderexecutive department

   PartsDepartment of Energy Intelligence

Questions about energy department

What does energy department mean?

energy department means "the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977".

What is another word for energy department?

Close synonyms include Department of Energy, Energy, DOE. 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 energy department a common word?

energy department 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.