alphabet agency

English

Etymology

The names of these agencies were initialisms.

Noun

alphabet agency (plural alphabet agencies)

(US) Any of a number of US federal government agencies created as part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Related terms

alphabet boy
three letter agent

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