FEDERAL AVIATION AGENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Federal Aviation Agency mean? 

• FEDERAL AVIATION AGENCY (noun)
  The noun FEDERAL AVIATION AGENCY has 1 sense:

1. an agency in the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the safety of civilian aviation

  Familiarity information: FEDERAL AVIATION AGENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEDERAL AVIATION AGENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agency in the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the safety of civilian aviation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

FAA; Federal Aviation Agency

Hypernyms ("Federal Aviation Agency" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Federal Aviation Agency" is a part of...):

Department of Transportation; DoT; Transportation (the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966)