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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Department of Energy mean? 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (noun)
  The noun DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY has 1 sense:

1. the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977play

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


 Dictionary entry details 


DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Department of Energy; DOE; Energy; Energy Department

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "Department of Energy"):

Department of Energy Intelligence; DOEI (an agency that collects political and economic and technical information about energy matters and makes the Department of Energy's technical and analytical expertise available to other members of the Intelligence Community)


 Context examples 


Mars may have been a wetter place than previously thought, according to research on simulated Martian meteorites conducted, in part, at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

(New Evidence for A Water-Rich History on Mars, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)



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