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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Department of the Interior mean? 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (noun)
  The noun DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR has 1 sense:

1. the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849play

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


 Dictionary entry details 


DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Department of the Interior; DoI; Interior; Interior Department

Hypernyms ("Department of the Interior" 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 the Interior"):

FWS; United States Fish and Wildlife Service; US Fish and Wildlife Service (an agency in the Department of the Interior that conserves and protects fish and wildlife and their habitats; assesses the environmental impact of pesticides and nuclear power site and hydroelectric dams and thermal pollution)

National Park Service (an agency of the Interior Department responsible for the national parks)


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