FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Federal Trade Commission mean? 

• FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION (noun)
  The noun FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION has 1 sense:

1. an independent agency of the United States federal government that maintains fair and free competition; enforces federal antitrust laws; educates the public about identity theft

  Familiarity information: FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An independent agency of the United States federal government that maintains fair and free competition; enforces federal antitrust laws; educates the public about identity theft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Federal Trade Commission; FTC

Hypernyms ("Federal Trade Commission" is a kind of...):

independent agency (an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments)

Meronyms (parts of "Federal Trade Commission"):

Office of Inspector General; OIG (the investigative arm of the Federal Trade Commission)