BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bureau of Engraving and Printing mean? 

• BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING (noun)
  The noun BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING has 1 sense:

1. the agency of the Treasury Department that produces currency

  Familiarity information: BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The agency of the Treasury Department that produces currency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Bureau of Engraving and Printing" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Holonyms ("Bureau of Engraving and Printing" is a part of...):

Department of the Treasury; Treasury; Treasury Department; United States Treasury (the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789)