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FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The federal agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgages
Synonyms:
Federal Housing Administration; FHA
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Federal Housing Administration" is a kind of...):
agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)
Holonyms ("Federal Housing Administration" is a part of...):
Department of Housing and Urban Development; Housing and Urban Development; HUD (the United States federal department that administers federal programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal; created in 1965)