interior department

Questions about interior department

What does interior department mean?

interior department means "the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849".

What is another word for interior department?

Close synonyms include Department of the Interior, Interior, DoI. 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 interior department a common word?

interior 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.