FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Federal Communications Commission mean? 

• FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (noun)
  The noun FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION has 1 sense:

1. an independent government agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio and television and wire and cable and satellite

  Familiarity information: FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An independent government agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio and television and wire and cable and satellite

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

FCC; Federal Communications Commission

Hypernyms ("Federal Communications Commission" is a kind of...):

independent agency (an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments)