SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Securities and Exchange Commission mean? 

• SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (noun)
  The noun SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION has 1 sense:

1. an independent federal agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors

  Familiarity information: SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An independent federal agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

SEC; Securities and Exchange Commission

Hypernyms ("Securities and Exchange 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)