securities and exchange commission

1. 1.

   an independent federal agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors

   SynonymsSEC

   Broaderindependent agency

Questions about securities and exchange commission

What does securities and exchange commission mean?

securities and exchange commission means "an independent federal agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors".

What is another word for securities and exchange commission?

Close synonyms include SEC. 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 securities and exchange commission a common word?

securities and exchange 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.