HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Housing and Urban Development mean? 

• HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (noun)
  The noun HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT has 1 sense:

1. the United States federal department that administers federal programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal; created in 1965

  Familiarity information: HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The United States federal department that administers federal programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal; created in 1965

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Department of Housing and Urban Development; Housing and Urban Development; HUD

Hypernyms ("Housing and Urban Development" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "Housing and Urban Development"):

Federal Housing Administration; FHA (the federal agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgages)