DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Department of Justice mean? 

• DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (noun)
  The noun DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE has 1 sense:

1. the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Department of Justice; DoJ; Justice; Justice Department

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "Department of Justice"):

BJA; Bureau of Justice Assistance (the bureau in the Department of Justice that assists local criminal justice systems to reduce or prevent crime and violence and drug abuse)

BJS; Bureau of Justice Statistics (the agency in the Department of Justice that is the primary source of criminal justice statistics for federal and local policy makers)

FBI; Federal Bureau of Investigation (a federal law enforcement agency that is the principal investigative arm of the Department of Justice)

DEA; Drug Enforcement Administration; Drug Enforcement Agency (federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances; goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations)

BoP; Federal Bureau of Prisons (the law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimes)

National Institute of Justice; NIJ (the law enforcement agency that is the research and development branch of the Department of Justice)

Marshals; United States Marshals Service; US Marshals Service (the United States' oldest federal law enforcement agency is responsible today for protecting the Federal Judiciary and transporting federal prisoners and protecting federal witnesses and managing assets seized from criminals and generally ensuring the effective operation of the federal judicial system)

Domain category:

legislation; statute law (law enacted by a legislative body)

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)