interstate commerce commission

1. 1.

   a former independent federal agency that supervised and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states; was terminated in 1995

   “the ICC was established in 1887 as the first federal agency”

   SynonymsICC

   Broaderindependent agency

Questions about interstate commerce commission

What does interstate commerce commission mean?

interstate commerce commission means "a former independent federal agency that supervised and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states; was terminated in 1995".

What is another word for interstate commerce commission?

Close synonyms include ICC. 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 interstate commerce commission a common word?

interstate commerce commission 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.