environmental protection agency

1. 1.

   an independent federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment

   SynonymsEPAE.P.A.

   Broaderindependent agency

Questions about environmental protection agency

What does environmental protection agency mean?

environmental protection agency means "an independent federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment".

What is another word for environmental protection agency?

Close synonyms include EPA, E.P.A.. 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 environmental protection agency a common word?

environmental protection agency 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.