food and drug administration

1. 1.

   a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products

   SynonymsFDA

   Broaderagency

   Part ofDepartment of Health and Human Services

Questions about food and drug administration

What does food and drug administration mean?

food and drug administration means "a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products".

What is another word for food and drug administration?

Close synonyms include FDA. 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 food and drug administration a common word?

food and drug 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.