English noun: Commerce Department | |||
1. | Commerce Department (group) the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913 | ||
Synonyms | Commerce, Department of Commerce, DoC | ||
Broader (hypernym) | executive department | ||
Part holonym | Bureau of the Census, Census Bureau, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, Patent and Trademark Office Database, Patent Office, Technology Administration | ||