federal housing administration

1. 1.

   the federal agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgages

   SynonymsFHA

   Broaderagency

   Part ofDepartment of Housing and Urban Development

Questions about federal housing administration

What does federal housing administration mean?

federal housing administration means "the federal agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgages".

What is another word for federal housing administration?

Close synonyms include FHA. 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 federal housing administration a common word?

federal housing administration 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.