INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former independent federal agency that supervised and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states; was terminated in 1995

Example:

the ICC was established in 1887 as the first federal agency

Synonyms:

ICC; Interstate Commerce Commission

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Interstate Commerce Commission" 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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