DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Department of Agriculture mean? 

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

1. the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Agriculture; Agriculture Department; Department of Agriculture; USDA

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

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

 Context examples 

In the United States, the Department of Agriculture sets standards for growing, harvesting, processing, and labeling organic foods.

(Organic food, NCI Dictionary)

A research group led by a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist found that a specific gene—APOA2—can result in a higher body mass index (BMI).

(International Research Team Finds Correlation Between Genetics and Obesity Is Modified by Diet, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists in Peoria, Illinois, helped mass produce the antibiotic during World War II to treat Allied soldiers and later civilians.

(Soil Bacterium Tapped for Penicillin Guard Duty, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Not all of nuts' calories are taken up by the human body; on some of them, the body gets a free pass, according to studies by Agricultural Research Service (ARS), U.S. Department of Agriculture, scientists.

(Going Nuts Over Calories, U.S. Department of Agriculture)