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Department of Commerce

noun

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, Commerce Department, DoC.

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"Department of Commerce" Quotes from Famous Books

... the superintendent heartily, "a great deal is being done. The Bureau of the Census has been of immense service, and other bureaus of the Department of Commerce and Labor are working on it, largely through information gathered for them by the census. Then there have been thorough Congressional investigations, and the States are being checked up hard to insure that factory inspection shall be real, not nominal. Don't let the 'crusader' persuade you that ...

— The Boy With the U.S. Census • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

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