DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966

Synonyms:

Department of Transportation; DoT; Transportation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Department of Transportation" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "Department of Transportation"):

FAA; Federal Aviation Administration (an agency in the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the safety of civilian aviation)

Transportation Security Administration; TSA (an agency established in 2001 to safeguard United States transportation systems and insure safe air travel)

U. S. Coast Guard; United States Coast Guard; US Coast Guard (an agency of the Department of Transportation responsible for patrolling shores and facilitating nautical commerce)