FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Federal Aviation Administration mean? 

• FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION (noun)
  The noun FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION has 1 sense:

1. an agency in the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the safety of civilian aviation

  Familiarity information: FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agency in the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the safety of civilian aviation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

FAA; Federal Aviation Administration

Hypernyms ("Federal Aviation Administration" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Holonyms ("Federal Aviation Administration" is a part of...):

Department of Transportation; DoT; Transportation (the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966)