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/dɪpˈɑrtmənt əv ðə ɪntˈɪriər/ Listen

noun

Interior n.

That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside.

The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom.

Department of the Interior, that department of the government of the United States which has charge of pensions, patents, public lands and surveys, the Indians, education, etc.; that department of the government of a country which is specially charged with the internal affairs of that country; the home department.

Secretary of the Interior, the cabinet officer who, in the United States, is at the head of the Department of the Interior.

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"Department of the interior" Quotes from Famous Books

... for the owner's reply I went on getting out the paper. There was no holding up an issue of a "proof" newspaper; like the show, it must go on! The Department of the Interior running our public lands saw to that. Friday's paper might come out the following Monday or Wednesday, but it must come out. That word "consecutive" in the proof law was an awful stickler. But everyone who had hung around the print shop watching Myrtle work, ...

— Land of the Burnt Thigh • Edith Eudora Kohl

... of state had the care of issuing copyrights. It was then assigned to the department of the interior, newly created. In 1870 it was transferred to the ...

— Studies in Civics • James T. McCleary

... TheMatanzas, and sent it to Rotterdam where it was loaded with a cargo of German dyestuffs. Th boat sailed under the American flag and was not interfered with by the English. Later on the German Department of the Interior, at whose head was Delbruck, refused to allow dyestuffs to leave Germany except in exchange for cotton, and, finally, the export of dyestuffs from Germany ceased and other countries were compelled to take ...

— My Four Years in Germany • James W. Gerard

... presentation of the paper, Congress has enacted a law establishing, in the Department of the Interior, a United States Bureau of Mines. To this Bureau have been transferred from the Geological Survey the fuel-testing and the mine accidents investigations described in this paper. To the writer it seems a matter ...

— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 • Herbert M. Wilson

... of Orleans created De Musset Librarian in the Department of the Interior. It was sometimes stated that there was no library at all. It is certain that it was a sinecure, though the pay, 3,000 francs, was small. In 1848 the Duke had the bad taste to ask for his resignation, but the Empire repaired ...

— Child of a Century, Complete • Alfred de Musset

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