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FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does Federal Emergency Management Agency mean?

• FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (noun)
The noun FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY has 1 sense:

1. an independent agency of the United States government that provides a single point of accountability for all federal emergency preparedness and mitigation and response activities

Familiarity information: FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Federal Emergency Management Agency ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

An independent agency of the United States government that provides a single point of accountability for all federal emergency preparedness and mitigation and response activities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Federal Emergency Management Agency; FEMA

Hypernyms ("Federal Emergency Management Agency" is a kind of...):

independent agency (an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments)

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