OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Occupational Safety and Health Administration mean? 

• OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (noun)
  The noun OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION has 1 sense:

1. a government agency in the Department of Labor to maintain a safe and healthy work environment

  Familiarity information: OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A government agency in the Department of Labor to maintain a safe and healthy work environment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Occupational Safety and Health Administration; OSHA

Hypernyms ("Occupational Safety and Health Administration" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Occupational Safety and Health Administration" is a part of...):

Department of Labor; DoL; Labor; Labor Department (the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913)