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HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The United States federal department that administers federal programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal; created in 1965
Synonyms:
Department of Housing and Urban Development; Housing and Urban Development; HUD
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Housing and Urban Development" is a kind of...):
executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Housing and Urban Development"):
Federal Housing Administration; FHA (the federal agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgages)
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