DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH EDUCATION AND WELFARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Department of Health Education and Welfare mean? 

• DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH EDUCATION AND WELFARE (noun)
  The noun DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH EDUCATION AND WELFARE has 1 sense:

1. a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1953 and divided in 1979

  Familiarity information: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH EDUCATION AND WELFARE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH EDUCATION AND WELFARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former executive department of the United States government; created in 1953 and divided in 1979

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Department of Health Education and Welfare" is a kind of...):

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