INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Interstate Commerce Commission mean? 

• INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION (noun)
  The noun INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION has 1 sense:

1. a former independent federal agency that supervised and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states; was terminated in 1995

  Familiarity information: INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former independent federal agency that supervised and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states; was terminated in 1995

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

ICC; Interstate Commerce Commission

Context example:

the ICC was established in 1887 as the first federal agency

Hypernyms ("Interstate Commerce 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)