fws

Questions about fws

What does fws mean?

fws means "an agency in the Department of the Interior that conserves and protects fish and wildlife and their habitats; assesses the environmental impact of pesticides and nuclear power site and hydroelectric dams and thermal pollution".

How many syllables are in fws?

fws has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for fws?

Close synonyms include United States Fish and Wildlife Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service. 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 fws a common word?

fws 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.