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ENERGY DEPARTMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977
Synonyms:
Department of Energy; DOE; Energy; Energy Department
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Energy Department" is a kind of...):
executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Energy Department"):
Department of Energy Intelligence; DOEI (an agency that collects political and economic and technical information about energy matters and makes the Department of Energy's technical and analytical expertise available to other members of the Intelligence Community)
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