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FEMA

Dictionary entry overview: What does FEMA mean?

• FEMA (noun)
The noun FEMA 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: FEMA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FEMA (noun)

Sense 1

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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 ("FEMA" 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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