DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Department of Veterans Affairs mean? 

• DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (noun)
  The noun DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS has 1 sense:

1. the United States federal department responsible for the interests of military veterans; created in 1989

  Familiarity information: DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The United States federal department responsible for the interests of military veterans; created in 1989

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Department of Veterans Affairs; VA

Hypernyms ("Department of Veterans Affairs" is a kind of...):

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