DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Department of Commerce and Labor mean? 

• DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR (noun)
  The noun DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR has 1 sense:

1. a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1903 and split into two departments in 1913

  Familiarity information: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former executive department of the United States government; created in 1903 and split into two departments in 1913

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Department of Commerce and Labor" is a kind of...):

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