CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Center for Disease Control and Prevention mean? 

• CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (noun)
  The noun CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION has 1 sense:

1. a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services; located in Atlanta; investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases)

  Familiarity information: CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services; located in Atlanta; investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

CDC; Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Hypernyms ("Center for Disease Control and Prevention" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Center for Disease Control and Prevention" is a part of...):

Department of Health and Human Services; Health and Human Services; HHS (the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979)

Atlanta; capital of Georgia (state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War)