AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Agriculture Department mean? 

• AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT (noun)
  The noun AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT has 1 sense:

1. the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862

  Familiarity information: AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Agriculture; Agriculture Department; Department of Agriculture; USDA

Hypernyms ("Agriculture Department" is a kind of...):

executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)