| 单词 | alphabet agency |
| 释义 | > as lemmasalphabet agency alphabet agency n. chiefly U.S. an organization or agency known chiefly by its initials. Cf. alphabetical agency n., alphabetical organization n. at alphabetical adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1934 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 19 Jan. 2/1 It may be that when columnists..dubbed the..NIRA, CCC, CWA and other government agencies as ‘alphabet agencies’, they were thinking of that particular kind of soup which we call ‘alphabet soup’. 1971 Public Hearings on Noise Abatem. & Control (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) 3 46 There will be a hodgepodge of rules, regulations, laws that will make the depression period of alphabet agencies look like child's play. 1988 N.Y. Mag. 5 Dec. 58/2 He is a policy sort who seems more at home in an alphabet agency than out in the streets slinging sound bites with the mayor. 2001 J. P. Tisano Black Swamp Gang iv. 17 Let's call in the police, the EPA, the CIA, the FBI, and any other alphabet agency, to arrest who did this and throw them in jail. < as lemmas |
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