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AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862
Synonyms:
Agriculture; Agriculture Department; Department of Agriculture; USDA
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Agriculture Department" is a kind of...):
executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)
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