ENERGY DEPARTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Energy Department mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENERGY DEPARTMENT (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 ("Energy Department" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "Energy Department"):

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)