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UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does United States Postal Service mean?
• UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (noun)
The noun UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE has 1 sense:
1. an independent federal agency that provides mail processing and delivery service for individuals and businesses in the United States
Familiarity information: UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An independent federal agency that provides mail processing and delivery service for individuals and businesses in the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
United States Postal Service; US Postal Service; USPS
Hypernyms ("United States Postal Service" 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)
Meronyms (parts of "United States Postal Service"):
United States Postal Inspection Service; US Postal Inspection Service (the primary law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service)
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